The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (‘GDPR’) will have a significant impact on outsourcing contracts. Although many of the principles of the current Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) make their way into the GDPR, the compliance burden facing companies will increase substantially under the new law.
Many data protection practitioners will have already experienced the increased complexity of privacy and data protection negotiations between parties to an outsourcing arrangement. This article examines some of the headline GDPR issues that outsourcing companies, service providers and practitioners should be aware of.
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