Law firm: Proceed with caution when it comes to GDPR certification

Lawyers are expressing wariness of certification schemes -- which enforcers of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation are encouraging as a way to show compliance with the law -- even amid new, industry-sought guidance on the issue.

“Most businesses have no real experience of using certification schemes in a data protection context, and the fact that the [European Data Protection Board] felt it necessary to issue almost 30 pages of Guidelines on this topic indicates that significant clarifications were...