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GDPR's Two-Year Review Flags Lack of 'Vigorous' Enforcement
The European Commission is responding to criticism of a failure of enforcement related to major cross-border complaints.
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It's more than two years since a flagship update to the European Union's data protection regime moved into the application phase. Yet the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been dogged by criticism of a failure of enforcement related to major cross-border complaints — lending weight to critics who claim the legislation has created a moat for dominant multinationals, at the expense of smaller entities.
Today the European Commission responded to that criticism as it gave a long scheduled assessment of how the regulation is functioning, in its first review two years in.
While EU lawmakers' top-line message is the clear claim: 'GDPR is working' — with commissioners lauding what they couched as the many positives of this "modern and horizontal piece of legislation"; which they also said has become a "global reference point" — they conceded there is a "very serious to-do list", calling for uniformly "vigorous" enforcement of the regulation across the bloc.
So, in other words, GDPR decisions need to flow more smoothly than they have so far.
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