GDPR has affected the way all business store, manage and communicate with their customers. This is no different from life science organizations who typically have more personal information than other types of organizations. GDPR was designed to better protect the personal data of individuals within the EU and set a precedent for data privacy and security. The regulation provides policGDPRy around any data that can be used to directly or indirectly identify a person, such as their name, photos, email addresses, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer IP address.