Most organizations failed to meet the May 2018 deadline to comply with the launch of the European Union’s tough new data privacy rules, and the majority of them still find compliance a challenge more than one year on, according to a recent survey.

Furthermore, just under half (46 percent) say their organizations have had, on average, two reportable data breaches since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, with nearly one in six receiving a follow-up inquiry or inspection from a regulator.

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