Twitter takes aim as GDPR comes closer
People across Europe have been reacting with annoyance and amusement at a sudden upsurge in emails from companies and organizations holding their information ahead of new European data protection laws coming into force.
From Friday, General Data Protection Regulation, also known as GDPR, will be enforced, updating previous regulations enacted in 1995, before the era of widespread internet use. They affect any organization, wherever it is based geographically, that does business with European Union residents.
The new rules override and tighten up the older ones. The previous legislation was only a directive, allowing EU member states the flexibility to enforce it as they thought appropriate. The new regulations must be followed more rigidly, introducing a uniform approach across the EU and relating to anyone within it.
