The European Commission Wednesday presented a plan to simplify the Digital Single Market, which includes targeted reform of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The proposal aims to simplify or extend “certain measures currently applicable to small and medium-sized enterprises to include small mid-cap enterprises that have ‘outgrown the SME definition’,� writes IAPP Research and Insights Director Joe Jones, who notes that “the reopening of the GDPR will now animate heightened consultation, discussion and debate on whether and where to redraw the lines set in 2016.�
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