Sunday 5 August 2018

GDPR is eroding our privacy, not protecting it


It’s been more than a couple of months since GDPR (the EU General Data Protection Regulation) came into force. The promise of giving the citizens back control of their personal data was brash and resonated with many of us, but apart from emboldening few data protection activists, the GDPR has not meaningfully changed the privacy status quo and hasn’t won us much control over our data. Over the last year — and for the foreseeable future — the GDPR is a boon to the consulting industry, but for most of us it isn’t much else than a distraction. By May…

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https://ift.tt/2LQTXhY Mindaugas Kiskis August 05, 2018 at 09:00AM

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