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Survey reveals accountancy industry awareness increased to 99% in May.
Software provider IRIS has found accountancy practices have taken positive steps to apply the principles of personal data protection implement procedures and allocate a data lead.
However a survey of customers did raise concerns on the individual rights to know the information held access personal data and the right to be forgotten.
The survey revealed the industry is aware of GDPR with an increase to 99% in May 2018 compared with 80% in September 2017. Other key findings include:
- Nearly three-quarters (69%) of practices feel their employees can apply principles of personal data protection up from two-fifths last September.
- Two-thirds can show they have the necessary basis to hold client data compared with 42% before.
- More than half (53%) have procedures in place to detect and report a data breach.
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