The EU GDPR Explained

You've probably gotten a deluge of e-mails regarding privacy policy updates in the wake of the European Union's new GDPR - but what does the law actually do?





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[theswag]

I am in E. U. and i can the tell you, after GDPR the internet feels more smooth.

[Stjaernljus]

it was passed over a year ago so they had plenty of time to comply with it but didn't until the last second

[DaanBrandt]

"because it was implemented so recently plenty of large tech firms have been scrambling to make sure they don't get caught on the wrong side of the law." That doesn't really make sense. The law was already announced in 2016.

[noobfl]

for me, living in de #EU, the #gdpr (or #DSGVO as its call in german) its the best thing ever happened to my internet privacy.. since gpdr, i can delete my data an force companies to do that in a short time period (i try it 1 day after the law was startet at 3 different internet companies, and it works perfectly.. one company first does not respond, i send them an email, that im not asking for "maybee deleting my account", but forced them imediatly delete all my userdata.. they do not respond, so i wrote them, i send a mail to the "datenschutzbeauftragten des landes bayern" that the company will not respond.. after a few minutes, all my userdata was deleted..

and another positive sideeffect is: much less spammails - because now, the users in the eu have the possibility to force a lawsuit against spammail ;)

[ZeldagigafanMatthew]

These companies have had a little over 2 years to prepare for this, there is literally zero excuse to not have a privacy policy that is in compliance with the GDPR.

[Alltoc]

2:11 I like the fact that it's written in german

[sebastiane]

Websites got much faster in the EU because they can't runn all tracking and ad scripts anymore. :D

What a tempo, it was quite fast paced yet detailed and interesting. Keep it up, this was great!

[BozhkAble]

GDPR was made in April 2016, companies just didn't give a fuck to comply earlier, because why bother when it comes into effect two years later. So all the scrambling is on them.

[bitrot]

Great topic for Jon to cover. Thanks for the quick, clear explanation!

[SweMisterB]

The idea behind GDPR is good. The execution, blows. Everyone just demanded you hand over all your rights to them, just so they have no risk associated with the data you represent. Regardless of if they intend to sell your data or not, they demanded you give them the right to do so, and so on. So, in the end, it got no better.

[JBinero]

Facebook does actually have different policies within and outside of the EU! Just because they say they are compliant everywhere that doesn't mean they are.

Not only are their policies different inside and outside the EU, but they moved the jurisdiction of their policy outside of the EU into the US for non-EU users.

[alexberger]

Soo i have a question:
Does the GDPR also apply to government organisations like the police that has databases with very private data about us?

[ThePJGROTTE]

Why isn't this about article 11 and 13 they are much more important eu regulations .

[justanotherintrovert]

Can we just save memes? I dont want to give up my memes...

[jisvanoverschot]

The end was a perfect segway for a PIA ad

[fishsticks]

In out of the loop but man Linus looks different... I guess it's the lighting

[KyleAButler]

I know we did a brexit but the UK isn't out of the EU yet and we still have to comply with GDPR.

It's likely that we will just copy and paste GDPR regulation into British law when we eventually do leave.

[justastream]

With this ending, the sponsor should have been a VPN

[mariuszkochel]

Can you also explain art.11 and art.13? They probably hit us(internet users and content creators) the most. Many people are afraid of them.