These new rules were meant to protect our privacy. They don’t work | Stephanie Hare
by Stephanie Hare from Technology | The Guardian on (#4TY47)
The data protection laws introduced last year are failing us - and our children
Who owns your data? This is one of the toughest questions facing governments, companies and regulators today and no one has answered it to anyone's satisfaction. Not what we were promised last year, when the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, commonly known as the GDPR, came into effect.
The GDPR was billed as the gold standard of data protection, offering the strongest data rights in the world. It has forced companies everywhere to modify their operating models, often at great cost. It inspired the state of California to pass a similar law and where California leads, the rest of the US often follows; there have been calls for a federal version of the GDPR.
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