- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
The Data Protection Authority of the German state of Lower Saxony recently began random examinations into how well companies are implementing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations. Compliance officers of U.S. companies with operations in Germany should be on alert.
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