Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, which shall apply from May 25, 2018, introduces a number of changes to the current legal framework. Most of the changes concern administrators and personal data controllers, which changes are not known in the current legal framework.
The changes and new obligations that data controllers will have to comply with since May 25, 2018 will be discussed in detail in a separate article.