GDPR, explained

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation aims to put online data back in the hands of users. Companies like Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook will be required to give their EU customers more control over their personal information.

[GiarkReleos]

This should be world standard in all aspect of life, not just digital data !

[corvusaflame]

I'm sitting here surprised that a CNN show did an okay job covering this, despite a decade of misrepresenting "Net Neutrality".

[zbudda]

Will the GDPR have a central based commission that dictates the rules and what happens, and like the TPP has overwhelming authority of the members country's due process, when it comes to data protection disagreements?

[KEW]

Can someone please tell me HOW is this good??? I CAPPED my concerns in the policy If it's too long, then just go down to the capped words you will see what I mean..

"Privacy Policy Last update: May 24, 2018
This Privacy Policy explains, how we COLLECT and PROCESS your personal data, when you use the software programs (“the Game”) that are licensed to you by Vizor Apps Corp. (“the Licensor”).

For what purposes do we process your personal data?
We process your personal data in order to provide you with our services connected to the Game. We may use your personal data to fix Game errors, add new features to the Game, provide you with better Game settings and make your Game experience more personal and smooth.
We also process your personal data to collect statistics, which we use for further development of the Game. Such data helps us to develop new features and add them to the Games, as well as analyze users’ interests and needs, technical issues of Game functioning, etc.
In addition to that we process your personal data in order to provide you with advertisements, which have been tailored to meet your interests with the help of our partners. 
In any cases we may process your personal data, in case we are obliged to do so by applicable data protection laws.

We may also process your personal data, in case we are entitled to do so by the applicable data protection laws
WITHOUT OBTAINING YOUR CONSENT. 

What personal data do we process?
We process information about how you use the Game.These data may contain information about your IP ADDRESS, Game identification number (ID), age, e-mail address (which may contain your name), achievements within the Game, in-app purchases and all other types of in-game events, as well as information on how often you use the Game, how much time you spend on playing, what kind of device and platform you use for playing, and your location data.
We may also process information about the essence of your in-app purchases, such as quantity of your in-app purchases, types of items purchased, the amount of money you spend for in-app purchases etc.
In addition to this we process information you provide to us when addressing our help&support team or communicate with us through our official communities in social networks.

Finally, we process information about you, which is made available to us by ANY of our PARTNERS, provided that such partner is entitled to share such information with us.
Such information may include, among other things, your location data, your platform identification number, information about your social network profile
(FOR EXAMPLE, your name or nickname, your date of birth, your contact e-mail etc.) if you use “Play with friends” mode, use social network data for playing the Game or authorization in the Game.
We may also process information about your platform account data depending on what platform you use for playing.

Do we collect your credit card data when you make in-app purchases?
The Game allows in-app purchases. In-app purchases are not mandatory and it is up to you whether to pay for accessing such Game supplementary functionality or not.

In case you make in-app purchases, we do not process your credit card data or any other payment system data (including, BUT NOT LIMITED to, your name as written on you bank card, card number, PASSWORD ECT.).

Do we provide third parties with your personal data?
We may TRANSFER your personal data to THIRD PARTIES, provided that such third parties comply with applicable personal data protection laws, including, but not limited to, General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679. Any transfer of your personal data to a third party is based on an agreement with such third party, and we make sure such a third party processor complies with the applicable data protection regulations, unless we are entitled by applicable data protection laws to transfer personal data without a written agreement (for example, if you have given you consent to such third party to obtain your personal data from us).

How long do we process your personal data?
We store all the data we collect for as long as you use the Game and 30 MONTHS after you stop using the Game. If you do not use the Game for 30 continuous months, we erase your personal data from our data base, as well as request same erasure from any third parties whom your data may have been transferred to.

Do we process any personal data of children?
We do not use the Game to knowingly solicit data from or market to children under the age of 13. If we are informed that we actually process personal data of a child below 13 years old, we will make all reasonable efforts to stop processing such data and erase it as soon as possible.

What rights do you have with regard to your personal data?
Under the applicable data protection regulation, if you are a citizen of the EU and fall within the scope of a data subject, you are entitled to the following rights:
You have the right to access your personal data, which we process.
You have the right to ask us to delete any inaccurate data about you. If you think that the data we process are incomplete for the purpose of processing as stated in this Privacy Policy, you may ask us to complete your personal data accordingly.
You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data in the following cases:
• if your personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
• if your personal data have been unlawfully processed;
• if your personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject;
• if your personal data have been collected, when you were under 16 years old.
Please, be aware that some of your personal data cannot be erased due to the privacy and proper functioning of the Game of other users.

You have the right to object to processing of your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing.
You have the right to withdraw your consent for personal data processing. Any withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Please, be aware that if processing of your personal data is absolutely necessary for functioning of the Game, withdrawal of consent will mean that you will have to STOP USING THE GAME.

You have the right to ask us to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller.

The controller of your personal data is Vizor Apps Corp., located at Global Bank Tower, 18th Floor, 50th Avenue, Panama City, Republic of Panama."

[agisler]

This is a pretty bad law. We get all these free services because of the data gathered by the corporations. This helps them seem advertisement and make a profit. Most people are unlikely to go and opt in.. so how long will it be before the free services are no longer free?