First company to fail GDPR compliance shares tips on prepping for US privacy regs

Almost exactly one year ago, Benoit Grouchko, co-founder and CEO of Paris-based Teemo, a technology company that specializes in location data, opened a letter from French regulators that shook him to his core: Teemo had just become the first company to get busted under the European Union’s Global Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. “It was by far the hardest time in our company because it was such an intense crisis,” Grouchko says. “We were very thoughtful about our