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One of the most seismic events in information security last year was undoubtedly the entry into force of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), perhaps the most radical shift in data protection thinking since people started to require secret passwords to access a person’s account. The GDPR hysteria has settled down somewhat since May, but it has become clear that the Regulation represents a wider shift in approach to data protection and consumer privacy, and things will not end here.