IT governance deficiencies “actively impeding organisations from compliance” with EU’s GDPR
To mark the formal ratification of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Council in early 2016, Blancco Technology Group has issued its new data privacy study entitled ‘EU GDPR: A Corporate Dilemma’. Based on a survey of over 500 global IT professionals across more than 20 types of businesses, this research indicates that organisations lack the defined processes, documentation and technology to adequately address the ‘right to be forgotten’ and require “major overhauls” of their data collection and removal programs in order to ensure full GDPR compliance going forward.
Although 46% of global IT professionals state that they’ve received customer requests to remove data in the last 12 months, 41% said they don’t have defined processes, documentation and technology/tools in place for data removal.
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