Critical Differences between FRCP and GDPR

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Critical Differences between FRCP and GDPR
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1CRITICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FRCP AND GDPR
1. Ways of conflict of GDPR with FRCP
On the May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) would take into
effect and would replace the existing codes of regulations. This new GDPR is mainly designed
for providing the citizens with a better kind of control over the personal data of the citizen. The
GDPR also tends to harmonize the existing data protection laws based within the European
Union (EU) member states and the different rights on data protection based on all individuals.
With the impact of GDPR, the privacy of data would become the most important concern
for information governance professionals and e-discovery that would be present outside the
context of EU (GDPR & Electronic Discovery: What to Do Before, During and After Litigation,
2019). Various data handlers, data owners and data processors situated within the United States
have made a lot of stake within the changing landscape of international business. The different
data-protection authorities have gained a range of powers with the enforcement of GDPR within
the organisational set-up.
With the introduction of the act, the GDPR would expose different U.S set companies to
severe form of penalties with the absence of compliance based on the strict regulations of rules.
The GDPR has also recently revised the obligations of discovery that would impose sanctions for
the failure of the party in order to preserve electronic data of citizens.
The new set rule of the privacy requirements of GDPR might be able to push the US
litigants for making of early settlements rather than proceeding with the discovery of litigation.
This would result in high issue of fines within Europe or any other kind of ethical issues that are
in regards to the preservation of complete discovery present within the FRCP Rule present within