How the GDPR Changed Privacy
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect May 25-- so what is it, and does it have a chance of inspiring similar data privacy ...
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You may have seen a few of these pop up on your phone or in your email. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Square, GoDaddy, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, H&M, and many more are updating their policies to give consumers more control over their personal data. Those updates and changes are thanks to a new law governing data privacy called the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. The catch is, GDPR only applies to people who live in the European Union.. but its adoption is largely expected to have Americans asking “Why don’t we have that?” Here’s how data collection currently works -- when you sign up for, let’s say Facebook, you have to click a box agreeing to the companies terms. Those terms give Facebook the right to track your online activities, even if you’re not actively...
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You may have seen a few of these pop up on your phone or in your email. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Square, GoDaddy, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, H&M, and many more are updating their policies to give consumers more control over their personal data. Those updates and changes are thanks to a new law governing data privacy called the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. The catch is, GDPR only applies to people who live in the European Union.. but its adoption is largely expected to have Americans asking “Why don’t we have that?” Here’s how data collection currently works -- when you sign up for, let’s say Facebook, you have to click a box agreeing to the companies terms. Those terms give Facebook the right to track your online activities, even if you’re not actively...
