If you were an American living or visiting in Europe in the past week.....you've come to hear about GDPR a good bit.
The EU sat down and wrote up a regulation (like the one they wrote for vacuum cleaners, or tea pots, or ceiling fans), and it centered on the use of personal data held by companies (like your bank, your credit card company, etc). But it even went on to affect Facebook, newspapers, magazines, social media, etc.
Basically, because the deadline has come now.....the companies (based in the US) are simply sending out a piece to each customer to let them know GDPR is in place, and they need to 'click' accept.
How big a regulation is it? 57,509 words.
Yeah.....roughly 200 pages.
How many people have actually read the whole 200 pages? That would be a curious question.
I suspect that you've got a number of technical folks who read it, and basically broke it down into ten pages of useful information, and the rest of the 200 pages are just 'filler-material'. The problem here is that the EU wants to appear to it's people as protecting their privacy. If you really wanted to protect your own privacy.....you'd avoid social media or commenting on public stories (like we all did prior to the internet age).
Those BREXIT folks? They are standing there and grinning because this is exactly the problem they used in the campaign. Is GDPR really doing much of anything to protect your privacy, or is it simply step one of massive control coming down the pike?
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