The Saarbrücken-based DURY Group is strengthening its management team. DURY Compliance & Consulting GmbH, also based in Saarbrücken, and with an international branch in Luxembourg, has appointed lawyer Martin Kerz as authorised signatory and has granted him exclusive power of representation. The required entry in the commercial register will take place in the next few weeks.

It should be common sense that data privacy is a very important element of business these days. Even though many responsible people have not yet overseen the necessity and possible consequences of not taking care about these issues. In the eyes of many, the GDPR is nothing but a bureaucratic monster created by the EU. Some “implement” the regulations within their process landscapes without understanding the surrounding world and internal consequences. If people consider the contents of GDPR as unnecessary and some kind of chicane, it shows that they have not yet understood how vulnerable individuals got in the digital age. Especially considering long term effects, is somehow peculiar for many people since in business life many decisions are driven on short term perspectives.

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