What is GDPR & How It's Changed the Internet? | The Deets

We all remember the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal that occurred during the 2016 presidential election. Shortly after that story broke, the world quickly became very concerned about online privacy and data security. Legislators around the world started working to regulate how online data is used and one of the resulting regulations put into place was GDPR. Privacy nuts won’t shut up about GDPR and it’s worth learning why because it’s changed the way you use the internet.

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[kenankomah]

GDPR was not created as a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the EU have been working on it since 2012.

[digitaltrends]

What questions do you still have about GDPR? Leave them below and we'll comment back!

[harz]

Why the heck do we need to see a bunch of people who don't know what GDPR is guessing what it means? That added nothing to the video except wasted time.

[Sarcastix]

Incredibly over-simplified and talks about fines the US charged against Facebook which have nothing to do with GDPR

[uindy]

Gdpr only applies to us the europeans, not any us citizens, canadians, all the asians, Australians, nobody else has gdpr. When the usa gets laws to us version of gdpr then you will have these protections.

[tonydoberman]

Dude can you just monetize your videos instead of wasting our time for 2 minutes getting your sponsor payout? Just use the monetization of the platform, THAT IS THE POINT.

[ThomasTownsend]

Your throwing around the acronym and you still have no clue - this video was lame and missed the mark by miles...BTW GDPR is an EU requirement NOT US. It's attributed to companies that do business or have users from the EU. You over simp[lify this like its US-centric and it's not. The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individual citizens of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).

[tellusorbit]

A very sophomoric way of explaining a complex issue. And as one other replier said, two minutes wasted before finally discussing the real point. Total waste of my precious time. Thanks for nothing!