> On May 23, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Anne P. Mitchell Esq. <amitch...@isipp.com> > wrote: > > > >> On May 23, 2018, at 10:21 AM, Daniel Brisson <dbris...@uvm.edu> wrote: >> >>> Also, don't forget the private right of action. Anyone can file anything >>> in the U.S. courts... you may get it dismissed (although then again you >>> may not) but either way, it's going to be time and money out of your pocket >>> fighting it. MUCH better to just get compliant than to end up a test case. >> >> Isn't "better" a factor of how much it costs to become compliant with GPDR? >> I'm no expert, but some of the things I've heard sounded not trivial to >> implement (read potentially BIG investment). >> >> -dan > > In our experience, orgs that are already following all industry best > practices are, generally, at least 70% of the way to becoming compliant > already. Where it can get expensive for the ones who aren't is in hardening > their systems to provide for better security/privacy. U.S. companies are > used to being able to drink at the firehose of data that is collected here in > the U.S., and use it however they want.. this is the real major change. I > suppose you could say it's expensive in that it is reducing the ways they can > monetize that data.
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