By the time you will read this article, the deadline for the European General Data Protection Regulation (otherwise known as GDPR) to kick in will be just over five weeks away and for companies all over the land, that means making sure personal information and data that they have collected is not only used but also stored in compliance with the new rules.
Regardless of the number of employees, all businesses and public sector entities will have to embrace GDPR or face fines of up to €20 million or four percent of global annual turnover, whichever is higher. In the case of a social networking company which recently made the headlines for the wrong reasons, that would have meant a potential €1 billion fine.
Research published in June 2017 by iGov Survey on behalf of KYOCERA Document Solutions UK found out that less than 60% of public sector organisations surveyed between March and April of that year were aware of the implications of GDPR for their organisations.
Is your printer GDPR ready?
What was more alarming was that nearly 30% of the respondents back then felt unprepared to meet their obligations regarding document and print management with a similar proportion saying that they do …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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