South Carolina Lawyers are YOU Ready for the GDPR?
With the European Union’s (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) set to take effect on May 25, 2018 , the time is now (yesterday really) to consider how this law will affect many aspects of your relationship with your clients and how your practice operates. Before discussing the major topics within the GDPR, it is important to define several terms that exists within the GDPR Framework. (Note: Article References are to the GDPR text [1] ) Key Terms Controller – As defined in Article 4(7) and described further in Article 26 a “Controller” is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law. Data Subject – For the purpose of