If it were a well written piece we would know what GDPR means/is in the first paragraph.
The European Union’s digital privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), officially went into effect today.
Blame me. There was an explanatory paragraph in the article that I dropped from the excerpt.
The story’s first sentence:
“The European Union’s digital privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), officially went into effect today.”
The GDPR was legislation passed in April of 2016 to ensure that internet users had more control over how their information was being used. Companies face enormous fines if they’re not in compliance with the data protection rules that have been laid out, which include providing more information to consumers on how data is being collected on them, and forcing companies to delete old data that’s no longer being used. At its most drastic, the EU’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has the power to fine large companies up to 4 percent of the company’s global annual turnover after the second offense. For large companies like Google and Amazon that’s in the billions of dollars. Under the new rules, lengthy user license agreements also must be in plain language and easy to understand.
No kidding. Written by a drone?
WTHeck?
Would this affect FR readers abroad, I wonder? Or, will it in the future?
GDPR? German Democratic People’s Republic?