GDPR is here: Mess Up and we'll fine you, warns EU privacy chief

Privacy has moved from a niche topic to one of the biggest headaches for top bosses such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg

From tech giant Facebook Inc. to libraries and schools, organizations are now subject to the world’s most far-reaching data privacy regulation in a crackdown aimed at protecting people from losing control over their personal information.

It’s occupied thousands of lawyers, taken years of planning and triggered billions of emails.

Mess up now and you can expect very little tolerance, warns Andrea Jelinek, the Austrian in charge of policing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, which took effect on May 25.

“If there are reasons to warn we will warn; if there are reasons to reprimand we will do that; and