A Conceptual Model for the General Data Protection Regulation

The widespread diffusion of Cloud paradigm and its approach based on delegation of resources to service providers, improved greatly the need of protecting personal data. Accordingly, in recent years, governments are going to define and apply new rules, that aims at protecting the personal space of each individual. From 2018, General Data protection Regulation (GDPR) applies in Europe, giving specific rights to each individual and imposing procedures to protect personal data. GDPR addresses a clear need of our social network-based society, but has the side effect of outlining the incapability of many actual enterprises, especially small and medium ones, to address such new requirements. In this paper the new Regulation is described with a conceptual map approach.