In 2012 a European Commission was tasked with planning data protection reform across the European Union to make Europe ‘fit for the digital age’. Out of this came General Data Protection Regulations that were put into place in May of this year. It requires that any company within the EU or that collects data from EU users follow it’s set of guidelines for data protection and data security. This basically consolidates the various data privacy laws that exist across all 28 member states of the EU.