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More than half of largest UK and US companies unprepared for GDPR

Open-access content Wednesday 3rd January 2018 — updated 5.50pm, Wednesday 29th April 2020

The majority of firms listed in the FTSE 350 and Fortune 500 are not preparing themselves in time for imminent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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That is according to new research by law firm Paul Hastings, which reveals only 43% are setting up an internal GDPR taskforce. Read the full article on our Predictions site here

This article appeared in our December 2017 issue of The Actuary .
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