More work needs to be done to improve regulatory harmonization and enforcement if Europe’s “gold standard” privacy regulation is going to achieve its goals, according to an expert panel speaking last week at Compliance Week’s virtual Europe event.
David Stevens, president and chairman of the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA), said the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is “the start of a culture of data protection” that offers significant improvement on the EU’s previous legislative efforts. However, challenges remain.
