While the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was ratified in May 2016, it will only be enforced from May 2018 and brings greater responsibilities for ecommerce businesses, irrespective of size, that hold data about EU citizens and visitors.
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by kooomo
January 02, 2018
While the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was ratified in May 2016, it will only be enforced from May 2018 and brings greater responsibilities for ecommerce businesses, irrespective of size, that hold data about EU citizens and visitors.
Personal data is anything that can identify a “natural person” and can include information such as a name, a photo, a physical or email address, shoe size, billing histories and online identifiers such as IP addresses, cookie strings or mobile device IDs. The GDPR will impact any online retail store that collects data sourced from their websites, apps, emails or any other means that results in data being retained in an internal database.
Personal data is anything that can identify a “natural person” and can include information such as a name, a photo, a physical or email address, shoe size, billing histories and online identifiers such as IP addresses, cookie strings or mobile device IDs. The GDPR will impact any online retail store that collects data sourced from their websites, apps, emails or any other means that results in data being retained in an internal database.
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In the next few years, we are foreseeing an impressive increase for the global retail industry. While this can be beneficial for the global eCommerce industry, it also means that there will be more competition, as well.
European Data Protection rules were launched back in 2018, to protect the confidentiality of our personal data but even four years later, there is still a lack of understanding among companies and consumers about how to comply with the best practices. Big tech companies, like Google or Amazon, usually refer to the acronym GDPR, to explain the rules that verify the data, so it is not used inappropriately, but to add details to create confusion.