With enforcement of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) just around the corner, preparations have begun in earnest. But according to the “Getting to GDPR Compliance: Risk Evaluation and Strategies for Mitigation” report by International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), such preparations are happening in vastly different ways on either side of the Atlantic.

Surprisingly, the survey found that more US organizations, 84 percent, expect to be fully GDPR compliant when the regulation takes effect in May 2018, than EU organizations, 72 percent. In addition, U.S. organizations are planning to be GDPR compliant earlier than their EU counterparts, as over one-third (36 percent) said they would be compliant by the end of March 2018, compared with 24 percent of EU organizations that said the same.

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