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— last modified 01 July 2016 After a protracted negotiation and design phase, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted by the European Parliament on 04/14/2016 and entered into force on 05/24/2016. After 20 years, data protection law is at a whole new level and particularly uniform for the European Union.AdvertisementThis regulation will be in application as of 05/25/2018 and replace the EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) which has been in force since 1995.What are the major changes?· HarmonizationThe Regulation aims to provide a unified data protection regime in the European Union, since it will be directly applied…