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Europe’s new data protection law: Reading the privacy policy updates

Very nice article published in “Deccan Herald” newspaper on May 28, 2018, about Europe’s new data protection law.  Read at least highlighted text . My website www.lancerdsouza.com is under maintenance for few days . You have probably noticed a flood of emails and alerts from companies in the past few weeks informing you about changes to their privacy policies.  Don’t ignore them. Yes, there is a lot of legalese to wade through. But resist the temptation to immediately delete those emails or close the alerts right away. They may contain important information about managing your digital privacy at a time when it’s become clear that our online data is far from safe. All those private messages are appearing now because a law called the General Data Protection Regulation will go into effect across the European Union on Friday. The law has been heralded as the world’s strongest protector of digital privacy rights. And while it was designed for Europeans, the borderless nature o