EU GDPR - A Pocket Guide (European) second edition

INTRODUCTION

Over the last decade, cyber security has become an increasingly important issue for organisations across the EU. While cyber threats cover a wide spectrum of targets, from critical national infrastructure to intellectual property, from trade secrets to financial information, a key area of interest for cyber criminals continues to be personal data (sometimes referred to as personally identifiable information, or PII).

Personal data – names, addresses, social security or tax identifiers, payment card information – is valuable because it can open routes to a wide range of crimes, including economic theft and identity crime.

The concern of the individual – what data protection legislation usually calls the data subject – extends far ...