1. The GDPR is a fundamental reform of EU data protection regulation which will impact any business using EU personal data (whether inside or outside the EU) and take effect in the EU on May 25, 2018.
2. Businesses processing data will be subject to greater regulatory requirements and individuals will have stronger rights, e.g. it will be harder to rely on consent as a ground for processing data. Data protection authorities will have greater enforcement abilities than before, including the ability to impose higher fines for breaches.
3. Businesses should update their internal data use and protection policies, start making data protection a core part of business thinking and review material business agreements. But in reality, there is a great deal of uncertainty still about what to do first, how to do it and how far to go. In practice, many businesses are looking to see what the major players do and what the regulators say about it.
4. In our view, small to medium sized digital entertainment businesses (e.g. game developers and esports teams) should take a reasonable and proportional view on what improvements to make and keep an active eye on the wider industry trends, which we expect to provide more clarity and actionable changes in the coming months after GDPR comes into effect.
Overview
What is the General Data Protection Regulation? The GDPR is an EU regulation which will take effect from 25 May 2018 and introduce wide ranging changes on how personal data can be collected and used.
To whom does the GDPR apply? Both EU and non-EU based businesses that process EU “personal data”.
What is “personal data”? In simple terms, it will continue to mean any data which can identify a living individual, but businesses will have to think even more carefully about what that means. Personal data will still include things like names, physical addresses, email addresses, age, gender, sexual orientation and health details, but businesses will also have to be careful around data like IP addresses or geolocation data. We will just say ‘data’ for short in this note.
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