The EU’s GDPR is international tyranny. It is the European Union declaring rules and fines for Internet companies, FreeRepublic included.
The GDPR claims fines such as $24 million for any data breach, or anything the EU considers a data breach or unlawful use of data. The EU is claiming GDPR is enforceable throughout the world, yet, it also argues no other nation has rights within the EU as they claim they have in other countries.
The GDPR is a lengthy law and has the typical extreme -left-wing conflicting rules, very much like ObamaCare. It is a law that is impossible to be compliant with while facing massive, company-ending, fines and criminal charges.
This is the EU trying to rule the USA and the Internet.
“...This is the EU trying to rule the USA and the Internet....”
They try this a lot. What else would we expect from a bunch of Socialist countries who cannot make their own money...oh, wait, socialism does not work.
They have not figured this out yet.....
Great article! I had no idea.
I see this a bit differently, your information has become a commodity captured and gathered into a profile for each and everyone of us. This what Facebook and many others have been doing and if you think that is ok well then there is not much I can say to you.
In essence the GDPR seeks to limit the amount of use of your data by companies to whom it has been provided without your consent, and on the other side if you choose to have it deleted they must do so, totally.
As to the data transport issue Facebook just moved over 1.5 billion records from EU to the United States in order to try and thwart this regulation. Unless you have been living under a rock this is a huge issue around the world as that data is intended not for convenience.
I will leave the discussion for further insights, GDPR is not the only standard that seeks to help maintain YOUR privacy and data, HIPPA, GxP and others do the same. I belong to a group called VRM out of Harvard and they are all about data privacy, and not from some leftist perspective. Just do a search on VRM and have a look for yourselves and then think about You and how much you feel comfortable with someone else having
Phone calls
Chats
E-mails
This will not limit freedom of speech at all, it will protect it. Bringing it home to FreeRepublic if a user wanted their record deleted then that would be fine, it was if they never existed from the data standpoint and any financial or personal info would be deleted