As responsible for Return Path’s privacy and security, Dayman leverages its expertise and key relationships to provide best practices to Return Path, its customers, and ensure compliance with their communication data streams. Businesses should review their privacy policies and technologies to ensure they comply and should not be afraid to contact their local regulatory authority or trusted advisor for advice and to make sure they are doing the right thing. Stay tuned for upcoming blog posts to learn more about how consumers want to benefit from it, how to make sure you’ve received the proper approval, or what it means to be a controller and processor of this type of protected data. To do this, you need to know how the GDPR defines personal information, where it is in your organization, how it is used, who can access it and much more. However, the same questions are at the heart of data protection: understanding what data you have and why. In general, the EU wants to give citizens greater control over how their personal information is used, as many companies such as Facebook, Google and many others exchange access to citizens’ data for the use of their services. Privacy must be integrated into systems and processes and respect for the rights of those concerned must be strengthened. The aim is to harmonise, modernise and strengthen data protection and processing guidelines across Europe. Be proactive and protect the data you store, encrypt and update your security solutions. It requires companies to conscientiously protect personal information and demonstrate how it is protected. Data breaches occur on a daily basis, and the EU has only aggravated the consequences of inadequate privacy protection.