Questions tagged [gdpr]
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Are there any political parties in the EU (or UK) who support scrapping GDPR regulations?
There's all kinds of parties in the European Parliament and national parliaments of individual members. Are there any parties that would like to scrap General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...
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Why did the EU give stronger "protections" to minors in the GDPR, considering that COPPA has had the effect of restricting those it tries to protect?
Quite a few years ago, the US passed COPPA, which imposes quite strict regulations on sites that collect information from children under 13. The end result was that many sites banned users under 13 ...
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Why does regulation and legislation on technology take so long to pass?
The presidential campaign of Andrew Yang shined a light on many of what it considered issues on modern practices of technology, data and the internet in today's society. Regarding 'Big Tech', data ...
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How does GDPR affect raising signatures to be able to be a candidate party for an election?
European Parliament elections are coming and the parties and candidates must raise a certain number of signatures in order to participate. One who signs to support a party or candidate must provide ...
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Why doesn't the EU encourage anonymity rather than creating rules about handling personal data?
The EU has a lot of laws regulating the privacy of personal data which tell companies when, how and under which conditions they may store information about their users. GDPR is the most notorious of ...
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Have any countries announced that they would refuse to enforce GDPR regulations?
Given that enforcing GDPR outside of the EU would require international cooperation it is completely possible for a country to announce they would never enforce it within their own territory.
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What is the total estimated cost of complying with GDPR?
All companies, charities, websites, NGOs and even government entities in Europe are scrambling to begin complying with GDPR. It seems that pretty much anyone who as much as stores a list of customer ...
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How are GDPR fines actually enforced for US companies with no physical presence in the EU?
GDPR is a hot topic since it will start being enforced from 25 May 2018.
One of the most important characteristics of this regulation is that it also applies to companies outside the EU:
A major ...
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