With the growing social media and online shopping spree, the personal data input online has been bombarding servers across the globe. This has raised the question of privacy issues online, since our personal data is being handled through many different mediators, whom we don't even know has access to them. In Europe this has led to upgrade from the old Data Protection Directive to the new General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR. It obligees the companies to establish that all Personal Data are handled according to legislations.
Internet users has become more aware of the risks of hacking and identity thefts. They have also become more aware of their own rights what information to give online. All of these are creating more competition between online providers.
The new GDPR deals with how and what personal data is handled in different functions and organizations. How these organizations inform their customers what they are actually doing with the informations they are given, and where those informations actually exist. What are the conditions and procedures that are used to transfer that data from within EU to outside countries, and how long that personal data can be used. It defines the requirements for legislation when using subcontractors for handling that personal data. GDPR enhances how people's rights are properly treated in their personal data and how that data it properly protected.
Article 13 states all the information the data collector must provide for the users knowledge that they are collecting. If the collector has a need to use the data to others purposes, they are required to inform the users of this with all the specifics that they had to provide the users before data collection.
The GDPR is for us, the users. It enables you to have more access to your data, it gives you the opportunity to influence and it gives you the freedom to choose. In reality when you go to a new web page you will be bombarded with pop-up windows, which most don't seem to have any other button but "agree", before you can see the content of that site. Or simply choose not to use that site. The same problem occurs also every time you've checked their privacy policy and rejected them, and end up revisiting that site again. In social media you simply have to agree with their policies. Or choose not to use their services.
Internet users has become more aware of the risks of hacking and identity thefts. They have also become more aware of their own rights what information to give online. All of these are creating more competition between online providers.
The new GDPR deals with how and what personal data is handled in different functions and organizations. How these organizations inform their customers what they are actually doing with the informations they are given, and where those informations actually exist. What are the conditions and procedures that are used to transfer that data from within EU to outside countries, and how long that personal data can be used. It defines the requirements for legislation when using subcontractors for handling that personal data. GDPR enhances how people's rights are properly treated in their personal data and how that data it properly protected.
Article 13 states all the information the data collector must provide for the users knowledge that they are collecting. If the collector has a need to use the data to others purposes, they are required to inform the users of this with all the specifics that they had to provide the users before data collection.
The GDPR is for us, the users. It enables you to have more access to your data, it gives you the opportunity to influence and it gives you the freedom to choose. In reality when you go to a new web page you will be bombarded with pop-up windows, which most don't seem to have any other button but "agree", before you can see the content of that site. Or simply choose not to use that site. The same problem occurs also every time you've checked their privacy policy and rejected them, and end up revisiting that site again. In social media you simply have to agree with their policies. Or choose not to use their services.
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