GDPR effects on the privacy by design in online systems

This survey is a part of the research for the honours project titled “GDPR effects on the privacy by design in online systems”. The GDPR is a relatively recent regulation and for that reason full effects of it are not yet understood and not all organisations managed to comply with it. Since GDPR main issue is the privacy and how private data is handled it will have the biggest impact on the e-commerce businesses.
Research aim is to gather data about GDPR effects on web development processes from web development professionals and understand how e-commerce has changed. The final outcome of the project will be guide for the e-commerce websites providing instructions how to achieve GDPR compliancy. This is an academic project and all of the data gathered will be used purely for the academic research purposes. All of the data gathered will be anonymised and will be deleted after the project is over. The survey consist of 18 questions. 

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