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The revised EU’s Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will both come in force in 2018. Seemingly unconnected, these two regulatory initiatives share a common goal– putting customers in control of their own personal data and keeping that personal data safe.

PSD2  is an update to the original Payment Service Directive, which was adopted in 2007.  The original Directive was implemented to make cross-border payments as easy, efficient and secure as national payments in the EU Member States.  The major changes of PSD2 are:
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While the GDUnited Nations newsPR compliance clock is ticking for companies, EU Member States have also been preparing for the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) which will become enforceable on May 25, 2018.

The GDPR will be directly applicable in all EU Member States without the need for implementing national laws. However, apart from the need to establish the supervisory authority, the GDPR provides Member States with the possibility to introduce more specific rules in a number of. This includes the areas of employment, sensitive personal data such as health data and in relation to the role of data protection officers.

Below is a survey of the GDPR guidance by Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) in several key Member States.
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Germany FlagOn June 30, 2017, Germany passed its new Federal Data Protection Act (Datenschutz-Anpassungs- und -Umsetzungsgesetz EU), the Act. The Act implements the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and will enter into force on 25 May 2018. It will replace the former German Data Protection Act (BDSG), which has been in force for nearly four decades. Although the Act is only a supplement to the GDPR, it includes various additional provisions that need to be followed.
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