The real GDPR test is still to come

Key figures warn of major sanctions for companies that don’t get their house in order, writes Emmet Ryan

Mike Ross, commercial director at Wizuda, has seen an increase in the number of companies realising they need to act

The clock struck midnight on Friday and nothing really happened. The general data protection regulation (GDPR) came into force on May 25 and, after months of discussion, the date passed quietly on the regulation front.

But regulators and experts had been stressing for months that the GDPR was not about one single day. The implementation date was deliberately never referred to as a deadline because treating it as one would have lulled companies ...