GDPR and his brothers
The first real privacy law was the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into the light in 2016 and was enforced in 2018, after an attempt made in 1995, known as Directive 95/46/ec of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995, where the Directive wasn’t adopted by member states in the same way.
The GDPR unites data privacy regulations across Europe while preserving and empowering the data privacy of the people of the EU. It also affects any organization that handles or manages the data of the people of the EU, regardless of location, making the GDPR legally obligatory for US corporations with worldwide operations, overseas locations, and even remote employees.
Individual rights are bolstered and new ones are established under the GDPR. These include the following (but there are also many more):
- The right to data portability: You have the right to get your personal information from a company in a frequently...