GDPR obligation difficulty among EU & U.S. firms 2019

Ensuring the right to be forgotten was the most difficult obligation for companies having to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2019. Privacy experts from companies based in the EU and United States also considered data portability quite difficult, ranking this obligation with a mean score of 4.6 and 4.9 out of 10 respectively.

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Release date

2019

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Region

United States, EU

Survey time period

2019

Number of respondents

370*

Special properties

privacy experts

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows:"Rate the following legal obligations of the GDPR in terms of how difficult they are for your company to comply." Score on a 0-10 scale: 0=Not At All Difficult; 10=Extremely Difficult.

*Privacy experts answering the survey worked in companies with headquarters located as follows:
U.S.:39%; EU (UK excluded):33%; UK:13%; Canada: 6%; other; 5%; non-Europe:3%;Australia/New Zealand: 1 %.

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