IBM report: EU privacy rule creates opportunities

The IBM Institute for Business Value, in a report released last week, is calling upcoming European Union data privacy and security rules a transformative event and asking, “can organizations turn a compliance challenge into an occasion to advance their digital efforts?”

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect on Friday and has raised questions among U.S. officials and industry representatives alike on how it will be implemented and enforced.

IBM in its paper -- which includes...