GDPR: What Is It and How Might It Affect You?

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation on data privacy will come into force on May 25, 2018. This video explains how it could affect you, even if you don't live in the EU.



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[ninjapotato]

thanks for the heads up! I will make sure I am ready for May 25th!

[CraftyShawn]

Can't wait to see how this work out

[pcross]

Thank you for the information kind stranger.
This will educate me and my 15 years of ICT experience

[MatthewJBD]

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[mhdalmurad]

semoga ada manfaat nya bagi saya untuk terus belajar

[datasecteacher]

Plottwist: GDPR is valid for almost every business that acts across its country borders.

[martinsmith]

What is a DPO? Who needs a Data Protection Officer?

[HorrorGodzilla]

I thought it was 'Godzilla Destruction Prepared Radiation' or something like that.

[coconutcartel]

Just tried to access a site from us from europe . It was just a news site

[mehnazawlad]

using store photos (available in the Internet when we click for images) of individual will be violation towards GDPR? if Yes then what is the process which will allow me to use stored images?

[michael]

yes thank you, but how will china deal with this,

[Amanda-cddm]

Why would the GDPR apply to someone living in America with no companies? Doesn't make sense

[profiAcc]

So who and how can check if a company has applied GDPR correctly?

[teddybear-yxrd]

Again. if EU wanted to give us privacy, they would provide end-to-end encryption. Instead, we get a piece of paper. What we get is a popup on every website that asks for "consent". In addition, the idea that data can be "removed" from the internet is ridiculous. Once you put something on the internet, its out there... and it will stay there (forever) no matter how many laws you write.

[MrVidification]

In reality - it's no better than those pop up boxes on personal info before you install any android app. In a pc browser you now have annoying pop ups on a few websites in order to view them, in which you have to accept regardless to use them at all, or change website. There isn't always an 'opt out'. Websites still do not always give real details as to what they gather or do with personal data on a wider level, or how they profit, only vague information. What companies they may share info with can be occaionally listed but what info goes where and what websites are connected may still be unknown. The right to be forgotten is about as reliable as telling a marketing company not to call you ever again after they have shared your number with thousands of others. Regardless as to what you want any internet company not to to, you have no real control over them going against your will and sharing what they gather from you. The fact that your data can be shared with many companies in a matter of seconds thanks to technology doesn't exactly help either

[cinstudiek]

hey quick fun fact cyprus is in the European union and eurozone

[kyriakoskyriakou]

The map in the video is wrong. Cyprus is in the EU.

[SirDavidPaladin]

Meanwhile, in the US, Trump is now allowing ISPs to control and select data. Hurray!

[vovano]

so what? keep all the data in Excel file?

[alastairbarkley]

One year on and it's working our really well. It's been good to see US companies blowing smoke about how this doesn't apply to them and no way are they complying... and then knuckling under and complying. Almost all of them have seen that cutting the EU out of their business is a damaging strategy and those that actually have, well, who cares?


So successful has GDPR been that it's turned into a sort of de-facto world data standard. Even Google and Facebook can't afford to lose 4% of their annual turnover. Well done Europe, well done EU, the largest market, the largest GDP in the world.