Gdpr Rules News Today

Google has refused to disclose the Basic Subscriber Information (BSI) of the Youtube channel which operating out of the European Union where the data is protected under General Data Protection Regulation rules.

You are probably received a lot of e-mails and pop up ads in recent weeks from companies telling you they are changing their privacy policies. the reason for that, the new european data privacy rules taking effect today. those are called the general data protection regulation, the shorthand for that, gdpr, they are designed to difficult citizens of european countries more control over their personal data. americans and people who live outside of the eu are not covered by the rules but any compan...

Their services to the european market. >> japan, brazil, south korea are other countries considering changes like this. there was around that testimony from facebook crowe ceo mark zuckerberg in washington, d.c. a lot of conversations about changing the law to make it an opt in system here, that is if you are going to give up data the user has to opt in to do it, give up the information him or herself. is this just europe being europe, having stricter privacy laws historically than the u.s. has?...

By contrast it took yahoo three years to reveal the breach that affected 3 billion users. some of the companies taegted, facebook, google, facebook and pinterest. violations are 4% of their revenue. for some companies that could be billions of dollars. joining us, josh lipton. let me ask you, first of all here, you have gotten the e-mails. i have gotten the e-mails. what does this mean for americans what use the sites i just mentioned? >> well, you know, lets start with what it means for the ame...

Think. we should also note the fight isnt exactly over in the eu as well. we have seen well-known privacy activists in europe who got right to work i filing complaints against big tech this idea of forced consent, the idea you arent giving user a true free choice but big tech is already pushing back against that. facebook has already said listen we have done the work we are meeting the requirements of gdpr as stated, our policies are clear our settings and tools are better but its probably not t...

Our troop presence in south korea and our extended nuclear umbrella we have over south korea. we need to bridge this gap. thats going to be critical at the summit that we are on the same page when we are talking about denuclearization. >> still ahead, have you been get all of those anowing privacy pop ups on everything from internet sites to phone adds? it has to do with new data privacy rules. there are complaints that sites are trying to skirt those rules. what all the changes mean for your fa...