GDPR Implementation Patterns — Privacy by Design
Implementing consent management, data subject rights, right to deletion, and data portability for GDPR compliance
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European Union's data privacy law, and it's the most consequential privacy regulation in the world. Not because Europe is the only market that matters, but because GDPR applies to any organization that processes data of EU residents — regardless of where the organization is based. If a user in Berlin signs up for your app hosted on Vercel in the US, GDPR applies.
The penalties for non-compliance are designed to get attention: up to 4% of annual global revenue or 20 million euros, whichever is higher. For a startup, that's potentially existential. For a large company, it's a boardroom-level conversation.
But GDPR isn't just about avoiding fines. It's a framework for building products that respect user privacy. And increasingly, use
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