‘It’s keeping a lot of lawyers busy on both sides of the equation,’ Geraldine Proudler says of the incoming GDPR. The head of reputation and media litigation and partner at CMS notes there have always been trends in reputation management, but data protection is now the focus for companies and individuals alike.
For companies, it’s ‘not new in the sense that data protection was always there, but the consequences of getting it wrong are now much more serious’ due to the sizeable GDPR fines. While for HNWs, data protection is ‘a very real concern – how comfortable can they be that their private information will remain private in the current climate?’