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And this is why we need the GDPR. The potential for the sheer amount of sensitive personal information that this can hoover up is extraordinary.

• rwmj 9y ago
  An EU regulation for data protection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...) for anyone else who was wondering.
  • jerf 9y ago
    If you are a tech-type company doing business in the EU and this is news to you, hie thee hence to a lawyer forthwith. The GDPR has teeth. You are not going to want to discover you're in violation the hard way.
    • jacquesm 9y ago
      2018 will likely not see active enforcement, a couple of stern warnings and maybe a single case to court to show they mean business. But I fully expect the hammer to come down in 2019 and frankly I can't wait. I look at a lot of companies professionally and the range goes from: "GDPR? What is that?" to "Sure, we're ready, here is what we did and we are already compliant.". Most companies are somewhere in the middle between those two, they are aware that something is changing but they are still trying to figure out the impact on their business. Lawyers are - unless their specialty is privacy law and they have boned up on this - pretty useless and generally tend to know even less.