The RGPD or General Data Protection Regulation, is the name by which the regulation that relates to the protection of people with respect to the treatment given to the personal data of citizens and the free movement of data is known. themselves. Said regulation came into effect in 2016, specifically on May 25 of that year, but it was not applied until two years later, since for two years organizations, companies, institutions and agencies gradually adapted to compliance of this one. Within the European continent, the RGPD is a standard Mandatory, which is why any organization that operates within the continent and that handles personal data must adhere to the regulations, for those who do not comply with it can lead to fines of up to 19 million euros.
This regulation differs from the Data Protection Directive by the fact that the latter established certain objectives within the European Union that member countries had to achieve, but it was the responsibility of each country to draw up its own laws in order to achieve these objectives. While in the case of the RGPD what it does is a legislative act that must be applied throughout the European Union.
Due to new technologies such as the internet, modern mobile devices, broadband connection, social networks and other innovative inventions, there has been an explosion in the way in which they are stored, shared and processed the personal data of each person. Nowadays it is normal for each person to carry all their personal information with them on their phone, and they can be shared almost on any platform and with a large number of entities, not to mention that they can be stored on sites such as the data cloud in a way intangible so to speak.
For this reason, more and more companies are dedicated to the collection and processing of personal data. Over the last 5 years this type of company has had significant growth and which will continue for a few more years.
A large percentage of this data is processed electronically, however, it is important to mention that even today the manual process is carried out.
