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When did the GDPR come into effect?
What is personal data?
Who does the GDPR apply to?
What are the possible penalties/fines of GDPR?
Does my workplace need a data protection officer (DPO)?
What happened to the GDPR after Brexit?
The GDPR began as an EU regulation, which means that it’s enforced by the EU and applies only to member countries. So, once the UK left the EU, the GDPR will no longer apply to the data of UK citizens. However:
1. UK organisations still need to comply with the EU Regulation if they ever handle the data of EU citizens. The Government has brought into law the Data Protection Act 2018 which is an almost carbon copy of the GDPR, so being GDPR compliant means you’re also Data Protection Act Compliant.
2. The EU Regulation, via the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations has been brought into UK law, amended to remove any mention of the EU and now stands as the UK GDPR.
Organisations which process both EU and UK citizen data will need to handle both sets of data according to the Regulation which applies to them (i.e. EU GDPR for EU citizens and UK GDPR for UK citizens).
Am I exempt from the GDPR if I have fewer than 250 employees at my company?

No matter the size of your company; how many employees you have, customers you serve, or what your annual turnover is, the GDPR applies to you. That magic 250 employee threshold is only mentioned once in the regulation and that’s in relation to record keeping. The GDPR requires that you keep detailed records of all processing activities – including records of consent, decision making, privacy notices etc. – but with fewer than 250 employees, you don’t need to. However, the rest of the GDPR still applies in full.

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