Microsoft Dynamics NAV and GDPR: what’s next?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25, 2018 and represents a significant overhaul of data protection legislation; the accountability principle will mean that businesses will need to examine how they hold and use data and take steps to demonstrate compliance with the data protection principles.

With the release of NAV 2018 Cumulative Update 3 last week, Microsoft has done a first step on making NAV GDPR compliant. This Cumulative Update adds Data Classification to your NAV tables and this is the NAV version you need to deploy as soon as possible in order to be at least „level 0“ GDPR compliant.

When installing NAV 2018 CU3 and open properties of a Table’s field, you can see the new DataClassification property:

The DataClassification property can be set on table objects and field controls: