As organizations look to implement obligations laid out within the EU Data Act, companies may have to navigate conflicts between the bill and the EU’s existing data protection standards. As part of a series of IAPP articles on the operational impacts of the EU Data Act, lawyer and Certified IT Law Specialist Matthias Niebuhr wrote, to tackle challenges associated with the bill, “manufacturers should conduct a thorough analysis of the data collected by their products which needs to be made available under the Data Act, assess its nature under the (EU General Data Protection Regulation), and identify the proper mechanisms to provide the data in a compliant manner.”
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