From May 26 the new European GDPR law is supposed to protect our personal data, stored online and beyond. They had to be lost millions personal data, and hundreds of hours in the courts at the world level to start the obvious: That ordinary citizens can protect their personal data from the big companies that operate and prosper from the specific data.
How much is feasible?
GDPR For our sake
If 20 years ago we were talking about the effects of interconnection and collection data in the personal, social, and professional life of the world, would characterize us as exaggerated and hostile to technologys.
Now that the tracking and identification of even our toaster is already a reality, the European GDPR law protects that we have not been protected for at least 20 years.
Do you think it will stop the thousands of calls that call us for promotional purposes? These phone calls come from personal data transfers or customer lists.
The advertising approach of Google, YouTube and Facebook has been and nobody knows for how long it will continue to be an informal collection of personal data. The GDPR discloses to us what we already know, and once again asks for our explicit consent. The other is imposing very high fines, which should have been in place for a very long time.
Violations
But this particular measure with very high fines in the event of non-compliance, or in case of data leakage, will facilitate the early warning of a company that has been infringed on its customers?
Until now, it has been observed that companies that were infringed kept the seal off so as not to tarnish their reputation. Usually we got the information when it was too late, that is, after the data leaked to the underground forums.
Today, in addition to this, a very high fine was added for the inability to protect data, but also for the untimely reporting of the violation…
What do you think will happen?
Right to oblivion
Of course it is worth mentioning that it allows the deletion of our data from a company's list and supports it right into oblivion...
Associate Professor of Law at AUTh, Ioannis Igleszakis present the conflicting opinions on the “right to be forgotten” introduced by the new General Data Protection Regulation.
Critics of the regulation question its necessity and take the view that it will be the biggest threat to freedom of speech on the internet in the years to come, while Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, a commissioner for justice and vice-president of the European Commission, argues that it is a modest expansion the right to privacy.
The fact that it is happy at the moment is that there seems to be a consensus that the "right to oblivion" can not lead to the eradication of history and to transform modern society into a "paranoid society", nor to act as a pretext for censoring the cyberspace, on the contrary, the invocation of freedom of expression can not be an excuse to preserve absolute digital memory.
GDPR Questions
Naturally, the new law was created to make things better for the end user. Here are some questions:
For companies, things seem to be somewhat more complicated. All companies were and are required to keep their personal data in order not to leak. 
Will GDPR be certified? Will it become another ISO, or HASP? Who will give it and at what price? The same applies, more or less, to intermediaries. Who certifies us the certification authority? Do all the data eventually end up in the "safe" tanks of a state-owned data protection authority?
Reminds you of George Orwell's 1984?
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