{"id":8832,"date":"2018-11-02T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=8832"},"modified":"2018-09-14T07:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T15:19:37","slug":"gdpr-six-months-later-many-companies-still-dont-comply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/gdpr-six-months-later-many-companies-still-dont-comply\/","title":{"rendered":"GDPR: Six Months Later Many Companies Still Don&#8217;t Comply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 25, 2018.\u00a0 The deadline for compliance with the EU GDPR regulations.\u00a0 You probably received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/may\/21\/gdpr-emails-mostly-unnecessary-and-in-some-cases-illegal-say-experts\">flood of emails<\/a> leading up to that date, and noticed <a href=\"https:\/\/eugdprcompliant.com\/cookies-consent-gdpr\/\">numerous sites now have popups asking users to accept website cookies<\/a> when browsing a website.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out though that few companies have been able to meet the strict requirements of GDPR.\u00a0 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talend.com\/about-us\/press-releases\/the-majority-of-businesses-are-failing-to-comply-with-gdpr-according-to-new-talend-research\/\">recent survey by Talend<\/a> also surprisingly found that compliance with GDPR was actually higher by companies located outside of Europe than those inside.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/85-percent-companies-not-fully-084138157.html\">A survey by Yahoo<\/a> found that more than 60 percent of US companies were in compliance yet 50 percent or less of European companies complied.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/penny-jones-506173b\/?originalSubdomain=uk\">Penny Jones<\/a>, research director at 451 Research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datanami.com\/2018\/09\/13\/so-far-gdpr-compliance-is-uneven\/\">said most companies understand<\/a> \u201cthe importance of GDPR, but many are still not taking their data seriously in terms of the technologies and processes they have in place. 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