From May 26 the new European GDPR law is supposed to protect our personal data, stored online and beyond. It took the loss of millions of personal data, and hundreds of hours in courts around the world to start the obvious: That ordinary citizens can protect their personal data from the big businesses that operate and prosper from the specific data.
How much is feasible?
GDPR For our sake
If 20 years ago talked about the impact of interconnection and data collection on the personal, social, and professional life of the world, we would call ourselves exaggerated and technological opponents.
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.
Google's advertising approach, of YouTube and Facebook was and is and no one knows how long it will continue to be an informal collection of personal data. The GDPR tells us what we already know, and once again asks us a little more formally for our express consent. What is different is the imposition of very high fines, which should have been the case for a very long time.
Violations
But the specific measure with the very high fines in case of non-compliance with the law, or in case of data leakage, will facilitate early warning from some company that was breached towards its customers?
To this day, it has been observed that companies that have been violated have kept the fact sealed in order not to tarnish their reputation. We usually got the information when it was too late, that is, after the data was leaked to the basements 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 us to delete our data from a company list and supports the right to be forgotten…
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 good thing for now is that there seems to be a consensus that the "right to be forgotten" cannot lead to the erasure of history and turn modern society into a "society of lotus eaters", nor act as a pretext for imposing censorshipin cyberspace, on the contrary, however, the invocation of freedom of expression cannot be a justification for the preservation of 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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