The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation comes into force this week here’s what it meansYou could be forgiven for thinking that Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a law created to fill your inbox with identikit warnings from every company you bear ever interacted with online that “the privacy policy has changed” and pleas to “just click here so we can stay in touch”.
But GDPR is far more than just an inbox-clogger. The regulation,seven years in the making, finally comes into effect on 25 May, or is set to force sweeping changes in everything from technology to advertising,and medicine to banking. Related: NHS warns patients they could lose text alerts as GDPR deluge continues Related: Why the GDPR email deluge, and can I ignore it? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com