European Union policymakers want companies to begin preparing now for the trading bloc’s new data protection regime, even though regulators are still working out central aspects of the plan and there’s a still a chance the whole project could even collapse.
Speaking at the Compliance Week Europe conference this month, Peter Hustinx, head of the European Union’s Data Protection Supervisor, admitted there was no guarantee a draft data regulation working its way through the EU’s tortuous legislative process would ever become law.
