Many global organizations face a daunting challenge in complying with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and the EU’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), given the two regulations’ directives on how citizens’ data is to be stored, processed and accessed. In an effort to make compliance easier, however, legal technology providers are innovating solutions that bring automation to data location storage and classification processes.

Since EU data privacy laws apply to any company handling EU data, they also intimately affects those enrolled in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.