Unintended consequence: Britain's cyber center says GDPR slowed email security reporting

Implementation of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation has dampened reporting of email security checks, the United Kingdom's cybersecurity center determined, which in turn led the center to stop collecting the information.

“After some research and consultation, it appears that amongst other things, concerns about the privacy impact of even redacted emails alongside the introduction of GDPR have put a real dampener on failure reporting,” according to a report by the National Cyber Security Centre released Monday as...