If you own your own site and you are collecting customer information online, you need to learn as much as you can about GDPR. Since GDPR consists of new laws that affect websites on the internet, it covers a wide spectrum of things that need to be done for specific site owners to be in compliance (by May 25, 2018) or face heavy penalties. So, what is this law and how does it affect today’s businesses? First of all, you need to now that these laws are being imposed on companies in the EU and it stands for General Data Protection Regulation.