Definition
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is the EU's data protection regulation, which came into force in 2018. It grants EU citizens rights over their own data and imposes strict requirements on organisations for the processing of personal data: consentThe end user's expressed permission for someone else to see or process information about them. In the power market it is the consent that gives a third party access to metering data., purpose limitation, data minimisation and the duty to erase. In the energy sector, electricity consumption data is to be regarded as personal data. Infringements may incur fines of up to 4% of global turnover.