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How to prepare for the new GDPR?

If you are completely complying with the "old" data protection rules, you do need have to do a lot about your existing operations processing personal data. Some of the rules were, however open to interpretation and thus some "cutting corners" has been made impossible, like implicit consent. The new "right to be forgotten" also applies immediately to all processing (if there is a request, of course) where the retention was defined too liberally. Different national rules which you followed may be too lenient or too stict so at least a review of what you do amd how you do it is indispensable. Documentation also has to be completed, the "privacy by design" and "privacy by default" concepts and the obligation for data protection impact assessment, however, applies only to newly starting or significantly changed processing. So what about consent? First of all, it has to be noted that - contrary to what you can read sometimes - it is n