Ford, Tesla, Toyota and Volkswagen were among a number of high-profile manufacturers whose sensitive data was ‘accidentally’ shared online.
Many business advisors and leading automotive consultancy firms have fundamentally misguided thousands of car dealerships across the UK, with regards to GDPR.
Close Brothers Motor Finance has issued its top five tips to help car dealers achieve GDPR compliance after identifying a need for a quick and easy guide to the new legislation.
AM is hosting a free webinar this morning which will help car dealers deliver a positive answer to the question ‘Are you GDPR ready?’ in association with eDynamix.
Automotive retail businesses will see a “domino effect” of reliance on ‘Legitimate Interest’ to comply with the stringent GDPR, according to MotorVise managing director Fraser Brown.
Cox Automotive is set to host a series of webinars and Santander Consumer Finance will take to the road with its GDPR Inform & Explain Roadshows as car dealers are offered more ways to get up-to-speed with the new data regulations.
Car dealers preparing for the arrival of General Data Protection Regulation will be able to gather valuable insight and guidance on all aspects of compliance at AM’s forthcoming GDPR conference.
Figuring out what is required within your business to meet the GDPR requirements is quite a challenge.
Personal data is at the core of most businesses and forms the basis of a wide range of activities, from sales and marketing to customer relationship management; but the ways we are able collect, store and use it are set to undergo a radical overhaul.
Law firm TLT has spelled out its top five GDPR compliance tips ahead of its masterclass on the new data protection legislation at Automotive Management Live.
The automotive industry, like the rest of the world, is becoming increasingly reliant on digital relationships, both business and personal.
Bowker Group has turned to MediaBase Direct to refine its customer data as part of plans to prepare for the introduction of GDPR legislation due to come into force next year.
DMS Navigator has updated its dealer management system to be fully GDPR-compliant and is launching a GDPR ‘data cleansing’ service for its customers.
Seven in ten businesses have not allocated any budget to facilitate compliance with stringent new data protection legislation being implemented in May, 2018.
The F&I Conference has named Barclays Partner Finance as the headline sponsor for the second consecutive year.
The Information Commissioner’s Office has handed used car retailer Concept Car Credit Limited a £40,000 after sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited marketing text messages.
Like all organisations that process personal data, motor dealers must comply with data protection legislation.
The assumption that the Brexit leave vote will mean dealers and manufacturers can forget about the need to adopt the complexities of the General Data Protection Regulation, or EU data law, may be wrong.
An about face by European authorities means dealer marketers and service centres fearing the worst from a forthcoming data law now have reason to be far more optimistic.
Car dealers are being warned of the impact of forthcoming EU law on their freedoms to contact consumers – and the massive financial risk of ignoring them.
