McGregor and Partners presented the new Data Protection Rules and the Privacy Shield to AmCham Members

At the recent AmCham Quality Management Committee meeting in Sofia Asya Vladimirova and Dessislava Galabova gave a presentation on topic “Business will face challenges regarding data protection – new EU Regulation and Privacy Shield”.

The focus was on how the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and EU-US Privacy Shield will impact the business. Asya explained who will be affected by the new obligations under the GDPR, how the data protection principles will change and what companies should do so as to avoid the huge sanctions. Besides discussing the latest development on the Privacy Shield, Dessislava also gave her opinion on the current practice of the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition in dealing with EU-US data transfers.

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