The last time technology companies faced a reckoning that had them racing to change their products, the internet was a nascent channel still widely run on 56K modems. But for those companies still around, dealing with the Y2K bug in 1999 may soon be remembered with nostalgia.

In 2018, the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect, impacting not only technology companies within the EU, but all those around the world that handle, manage or process the personal data of any EU citizen.

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