The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European Union’s response to the increasing privacy demands of the European society. The primary objective of the GDPR is to establish personal data as property and to shift control of said property to the individual or user, rather than to the business or provider. Furthermore, the GDPR will come into force shortly and many companies are simply not ready to comply with the more stringent standards of using, moving and storing customer data. Let’s analyze the full scopeof GDPR and what it means for your cloud strategy.