Five years of the GDPR: No anniversary p • Table.Briefings

The General Data Protection Regulation was to become a centerpiece of Europe’s digital policy. It has been legally effective for five years. But is it working? An interim assessment.

Data protection is to blame if something is not working. This argument has been put forward regularly in recent years, not always with good reason. But data protection often gets in the way. This is precisely what was intended: In principle, everyone should be able to determine the conditions under which data about him or her is stored, processed and passed on.

Five years of the GDPR: No anniversary party

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