What most GDPR Watchers Know As most General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-watchers know, the Regulation includes various high-profile enforcement mechanisms and legal remedies. These include, for example: Fines. The enhanced fine structure described in Article 83 of the GDPR of up to €10 million in liability or 2% of the prior year’s worldwide annual gross revenue, for administrative infringements or up to €20 million, or 4% of the worldwide annual prior year revenue for

Under Article 5 of the GDPR, personal data may not be kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for longer than required for the purposes for which they are processed. There are a number of exceptions to this general rule. One of these exceptions is when you are obligated to keep records for a certain period of time as required by either a European Member State or EU law. For example, if you are subject to a French law that requires you to keep an employmen