Every year, on May 25, i write a small post celebrating the Towel Day, but this time there is also a further event!

Towel Day is an annual tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001): on that day, fans around the universe carry a towel in his honour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr7-BPpJxlY

And this year, the Towel Day coincides with the enforce of European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),wich aims to standardize governmental guidance about how EU member states handle personally identifiable information.

This level of regulatory overview of personal data is unprecedented and has required companies to ensure the highest levels of-of privacy protection, or suffer dire financial consequences, oftne generating unprecedented waves of panic in a lot of small companies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WJOncaHt4

So, never before today the main advice of Hitchhiker's Guide is actual:

"Don't Panic!"

(Although I doubt that a towel can save you from european laws!)

 


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