GDPR: Why you just got bombarded with privacy policy updates
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2018
- GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, took effect on May 25th - and big tech companies are scrambling to keep up. Here's what it means for you, your data, and your inbox.
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Do you think GDPR should be a global policy?
The Verge definitely. I'm very happy the EU cares about people unlike America. They help make the internet more safer, more private, and less capitalistic in nature. Props to them for this. Hopefully sentiment about data privacy around the world will change and will be positively influenced by movements like this.
The Verge I think yes, the GDPR's not perfect but good regulates our private data. And I think it's important to properly regulate these things when the internet is growing. And take the time to write a good regulation.
The Verge it's not global?
Well, idk, I'm from Asia (India) but I still got these prompts for all apps ~~ Twitter, Quora etc.
Yes
Yannis Fraselle yep, nothings perfect when it starts out. More than anything it's a stand and a statement, that these big companies cannot mess with our data just because they have deep pockets.
Thank you Europe. Giving us the privacy controls that the US Govt would never even remotely think about.
Lashan No problem. Greetings from Austria
Lashan Just note that those controls don't have to work the same way in the US as in the EU. Facebook moved their jurisdiction for the EU to the US for non-EU citizens, which would imply they are not respecting the GDPR for non-EU citizens.
Jeroen Bollen I realise that, Facebook is slimy enough and big enough to make the effort to only make the GDPR apply to EU citizens and nobody else, but most companies just see that it's easier (and also an easy PR move) to just give the same GDPR rules to everybody, and avoids complications over whether someone falls under those rules or not.
You are welcome, oversea fella.
The same way Europe would never be able to create any of the major tech companies like Google. Europe can only over-regulate when other people did the entrepreneurial work.
I love this, the EU is really stepping in for everybody this time.
LunaticStoker Single Market, Schengen area, Roaming Freezone, Erasmus+, etc. so many things the EU has done for its citizens, sadly many don't notice it or take it for granted
Edi Pires I know dude, it's sad to see that so many people seem to choose to ignore the many achievements and the many improvements the EU has brought us over the years.
LunaticStoker The EU is often the scapegoat of national governments. People must realise that no country approves under 80% of EU legislation, and most of them over 90%. If they really think the EU is bad, the change should start at the national level.
Any move to protect consumers from conglomerates and tech giants is good thing.
From what exactly? When did facebook or google ever harm you?
DerNeuere If they didn't, why did they need to update their policy? Why did Facebook change their privacy policy jurisdiction from a Ireland to the US for non-EU citizens?
Answer the question and stop with your whataboutism...
Exempli gratia: the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, or did you miss that one? The GDPR is a prevention for _exactly_ cases like this.
I'd rather give out my data than pay for services like Google and Facebook. What harm came from Cambridge Analytica? No way that was worse than identity theft. VPNs, DuckDuckGo, etc. are good for people who want (supposed) privacy. But I enjoy the services provided by Google, Facebook, etc. for free. They make money using my data for ads - I want them to keep doing so. Some regulation for transparency is fine, but people act like those companies are evil because they use my data. I'm just saying I'm glad they use my data. Most of the people who act scared don't know what they're scared of. Believe me, I ask around all the time - nobody can give me a good example of how Google's data mining has been used against someone.
Yay, everyone's phone batterys' suddenly appear to last longer! Thanks EU.
WTF mine actually do last longer from a couple of days ago lol. Is there any fact to this at all? :D
Yep. Less tracking and ads js files = less RAM usage = longer battery life
Of course. Less tracking means less data to be collected from the sensors, stored and transmitted over wifi/3g. Each of these steps uses energy.
*opens box of pizza*
We are updating our privacy policies.....
SideNote channel - Science and History hahah..... dude, your channel name is too long. Keep it "SideNote" only, suits more to your content.
True
SideNote channel - Science and History this will be the next meme
Soo you ordered with the Domino's App?
(kind of not a joke)
I think it is far better than, opens a box of pizza
we have updated your pizza with reference to what you have been looking in internet 3 years back.
Thanks European Union. Proud to be living in it, it's really nice to see they actually care for their citizens.
Martin2035 European Union is awsome, sure, it's imperfect (it's not even close to perfect) but what is? Most criticism people have against the EU could easily be applied to almost every government
Yup! My words. EU is definetly not 100 % good, there is always something to improve (in case of EU, a lot of to improve)... :-)
I’m an American and I must admit that I admire the European Union.
meanwhile in USA, net neutrality is dead.
no its not
So what does that mean?
Internet in US is a strange thing in general. Highly monopolised and stagnated.
I'm in Central Europe and I have easy access to 600 Mb/s fiber connection for around 20 USD per month. More than that, I have 2 other ISPs who are able to provide up to 150 Mb/s at the moment in the same location. All wired. So there is plenty of competition driving tech and infrastructure progress.
Meanwhile net neutrality doesn’t exist in the EU either. Many member states (e.g. Portugal from the top of my head) don’t have net neutrality
franfred12 we have a basic net neutrality law which exists across Europe but you're right in that it's up to the individual countries to expand on that.
You know it's serious when Brazzers sends you a policy change update.
As a private citizen, this is welcome. As a programmer for enterprise software, this is an annoyance. Still, consent beats convenience for me.
GDPR has been in effect since 14 April 2016. however, it is only enforceable from the 25th of may onwards. companies have had 2 years to comply with GDPR, so I do not see how the EU is going to be light with enforcement.
i live in the EU and i approve of this.
I do not. because I come home from work, open my mac, go to L.A. Times to read my daily news and... BOOM! I'm blocked. Cannot reach it from Germany because of this thing. Then I finally remember to turn on my NordVPN app and am good to go. But for the people who do not own a VPN... the situation is getting somehow similar to the one in China, sadly.
Farrukh Trader i don’t experience such problems? i live in Bulgaria
that's weird. I found this here too: tinyurl.com/ya974veo
Hello, this is your average UA-cam commenter writing to tell you we're updating our Privacy Policy.
Ahem, when do we get GDPR email from Verge?
The only channel that really deliver what's up that's easy to understand..
Verge, your contents just reached new levels.Thanks for the info 😊
Nice! Thanks for that!
Nice Video. Very important information. Throughout the video your hands and fingers looked as if you were typing something.
Oh my, thanks for this video! I almost thought that something's wrong with my email, since I've been flooded with those privacy policy emails.
Thanks for information
I was so lost with those emails. Got SO ANGRRY. Thanks Verge :D
Thanks Europe for having balls unlike America
Fals3Agent so Do Canada got this new law ?
Canada is in the same situation as the US when regarding the GDPR.
Whoa. What happened to the export on this one? Something funny at the beginning.
You guys at the Verge are not entirely correct about the requirements to collect only data for a specified purpose, restrictions on transfer of data to third parties and right to correct or delete personal data being new. All of those have been requirements of European Data Protection rules since 1988 (Yeah... 30 years ago).
The difference is that GDPR now requires companies to actually demonstrate that they are complying with the law by keeping records of consent and where the data was received from. And meaningful fines to back those rules up.
Indeed. This is more of a consolidation into a single set of regulations more than anything. There have been a number of disparate rules in place around the EU states over the years that cover most or all of this tuff, but nothing quite so comprehensive as this. This makes it so everyone is on the same page and has to follow the same rules and makes it clear what is and isn't allowed and what will happen if you don't comply.
Oh i was goona find a video about these policy updates and verge did it! awsome
As always a great informative video in the shortest time possible. Keep it up The Verge!
Yes was finally waiting to learn about this
i didnt need information about gdpr but i needed where can i generate it from
The font used in the thumbnail reminds me of the Overwatch Developer Update videos. "Hey guys, it's The Verge from the Overwatch team."
Wow a government that actually cares about its citizens. Imagine if the US had that
If "caring" means hijacking all the personal data for themselves, then yes, they "care".
Hey whats the background music?
This guy looks like the geek version of Justin Timberlake.
Russell Brandom :D
Ricardo G more like if Justin Timberlake and Walter White had a love child.
Excellent video The Verge
In my opinion,
We've updated our privacy policy
We've updated our privacy policy
We've updated our privacy policy
*We've updated our privacy policy*
I really digging The Verge again these days. Content has been fire. What changed?
thanks for the short explaination, everyone else doing 10+ mins videos kill me now
Very pertinent video. It is videos like this that keeps the Verge ahead of others! Kudos!
No wonder I was getting all these privacy policy updates. Thanks. Also, your hands kinda were kinda distracting. Had to cover it with my thumb for a moment.
Thanks for the valuable information
I am from Asia, and I have been getting these update policies as well in many websites and apps I use.
opens refrigerator
WE’RE UPDATING OUR PRIVACY POLICY
If it's a modern refrigerator, maybe it would have a speaker and microphone in there.
You must be really popular at your workplace with that video. Way to go.
I like to see your hands move. Also nice video!
Every country should have this policy.
So it’s the European government protecting European citizens not anyone else in the world?
We in the US is only getting the email is so those companies can do business overseas right?
Is this going on everywhere?
I'm from Asia (India) and I got these prompts for almost all apps like Twitter, Quora etc.
So this is a global thing going on. Right?
Yes and No. These regulations are EU regulations that apply to all websites that can be accessed from within the EU, no matter if the businesses are physically located in the EU or not. Most websites just change their entire privacy policy for the entire world instead of having to separate privacy policies, one for EU citizens and one for the rest. That's why you're also getting these prompts. Even though most websites are changing their privacy policy for all their users simply because thats easier, they are only required to do that for EU citizens, and only EU citizens get the benefits like the right to erasure
mark-nick hafer ok. Thanks for the info buddy.
From what I've read...
The simple answer is that it's much more difficult for companies to split their services for GDPR and non-GDPR users.
So they choose to update all their infrastructure to comply with GDPR which means that all non-EU citizens suddenly get some of the protections of GDPR.
i came back from Bengal, i received those there and now here in europe i received updated ones from the same companies.
@Erik'sChannel, it's not exactly that easy.
EU citizens get multitude of tools to manage how companies use our data now. There is a special type of request defined (SAR) which EU citizen can file for specific company and have them explain to you what exactly they are doing with your data and what does it contain (you also have the right to edit it, delete it and so on). If the company does not respond to this request, you can report it to GDPR coordinator in your country. There are huge penalties for companies that will not comply to this new legislation and will ignore such request of EU citizen.
Updating privacy policies is just a tip of the iceberg here. Non-GDPR countries will get some benefits (like with Apple and their new system/website for downloading and viewing user data), but there is no law that would enforce them the same way as in EU, if a certain company decides not to honor your request.
As a citizen of the European Union I think the GDPR is not as good as many of you think. Maybe these regulations would be great for America because you're not having any net neutrality anymore, but most european countries have had strong regulations before GDPR took place. With GDPR these regulations were generalized and that cause problems for photographers and a lot of people who making money with other people. Because every citizen in the European Union now have the right to let delete his data or photos and have a right to know how their data is used, you have to inform every customer who only calls your business before they are even saying their name or you write it down. That law is not bad but it's not very well made.
Agreed. Most people are clueless as to how such a law that promises to "help" will destroy the ability to make a record of the truth to keep historical records. This is Orwellian yet all these glib socialists think it's fantastic.
Thank you
Is no one going to ask why there's an oscilloscope on the table in the background?
That sounds great!
THIS IS EXCELLENT!
It’s not upto 4% of the total revenue, it’s upto 4% or something like £20,000,000 if 4% is larger than that (i can’t remember if it’s exactly, £20,000,000 as I’m getting this number from a test I had to take in work, but it’s definitely not potentially in the billions)
Exactly backwards. The maximum fine is 20m, or 4% or revenue, whichever is greater.
You don't know how lucky you are, back in the GDPR
For printing business cards
does it also include governments
That's interesting.
Also I updated my privacy policy.
I am still confused...
So after GDPR I could download all the data google has collected about me.
I browsed between the data and I found a 200MiB file containing every geolocation data about me dating back from 2012.
A entire folder containing vocal recording of me using google now.
Every activity with my phone, opened app downloaded file, website I've been to, every search I've done from 2006.
It was very unnerving.
I like your review system
Meanwhile, Yahoo is sending out Oath® emails which sounds like the exact opposite of GDPR....
Wait so if this is for European citizens, what if a company which has European users moves all that data to non-european servers, would they still have to comply? What if they refuse to pay the fine? Do their services get blocked in the entire EU?
It's uncertain whether foreign governments will collect the fine on the EU's behalf. I'm willing to wager at least some governments won't. The EU could then try to block, but that's pretty hard.
I'm all for consumer advocacy and more consumer rights. At the same time, I don't like the /forced/ compliance with the new regulations. Some Free To Play games have had to shut down as a result of not being able to cover the costs (Probably in regards to implementation of new features in their database, site, UI, all that.).
Sounds to me like compliance shouldn't be forced but a lack of compliance should be forced to be noted, maybe some warning on the website/application that you have to accept the TOS of to use their service. Anything else just looks like businesses get stepped on by the government, something which already happens on a day to day basis as-is. I'm not saying to let anyone off with it but I'm saying that the consumer should be allowed to take the risk if that's the case, otherwise, smudge the reputation of the business somewhat by not being GDPR-compliant but don't fine or force operations to cease as a result.
Who are these people using their real names and active e-mail addresses signing up for these things?
I wonder how much "data" there is in that area of the internet there actually is to "protect".
When it's all just scarecrow stand-ins, there's nothing to be exposed.
Although that certainly helps funnel people using aliases into services where the only way to use them is to give up their identities, which now the government is happy to collect --- where it otherwise would not have been able to.
is GDPR only good... or are there any cons?
when you visit a new website you have a pop-up box explaining that they collect cookies and invite to show how they store my data, that's a bit annoying but you can tick a box and that's all
That's weird.
Jerr, was is jetzt komisch ; Alter
You gotta love the EU.
Hopefully Verge also updated their privacy policy.
4% in penalties? That's some harsh punishment even for soul eating corporations.
Is this bad?
Actually it's 4% OR 20m euros whichever is higher. So Amazon or Google won't lose as much as you think.
Oliver Truswell 20m
In the video the presenter mentions that EU citizens have the right to request a change to certain types of data. I tried looking this up, but can't find it in the GDPR text.
Short story. My Playstation account has its date of birth set to 1990. But I'm from 1994 and would like to have this changed.
Playstation doesn't offer the ability to change this through.
But with the GDPR, wouldn't I, as EU citizen (from Netherlands) have a right to request for my date of birth to be corrected?
Hope someone can assist me on this!
Correction "The higher level of fine, up to €20 million OR 4% of the company’s global annual turnover of the previous financial year, whichever is higher."
This is good in my book.
Ah I thought it was a meme.
Good video, although you could explain not so fast
Thanks Zucc
Nice part from EU for privacy protection
7 BILLION DOLLARS FOR A FINE!? Wow! Go Europe!
Wtf I didn’t get any privacy policy updates 🤔
Ur a legend for this video
Meanwhile in the US, Net Neutrality is almost dead while Europe just threw the big middle finger to tech companies, many of which net neutrality is hindering from complete takeover in its last remaining days. Our ISP’s must be having a great time.
I'd guess that any site that uses advert links like Google AdSense/Analytics etc. and also sites that use "tracking pixels" and/or tracking cookies should be concerned. I'd further guess that pages with tracking pixels from sites that haven't notified people they are being used may shut down access and as a result possibly cause pages to load more slowly or become inaccessible. Kudos to the EU... ;)?
Finally privacy getting secured
This policy seems to have also affected spam emails and nuisance calls. I haven't received a single call or email from any company since May 25th. Peace at last.
It sounds all good on the surface, but it's vague AF.
So you telling just because the EU made a data regulation it basically is now used World wide
Thanks! And thanks EU
am getting lot lately to
Data localization laws like GDPR are great so long as you trust your government more than corporations with your data. It really is that simple.
Given the EU tend to actually enforce its laws I'm fine with this.
why would americans care about anything outside of USA?
and why is he saying that "goverment can really care about you when it really wants to?" you're comparing USA to EUROPE, yet you're combining them. they're not the same.
Sounds great
opening Coca Cola can
*We have updated our Privacy Policies*
Delete the right to be forgotten, data request options unless its court mandated, and the stupid max schrems case against forced consent which goes against the right to contract. Otherwise, it is a good start.
MOO makes business cards
0:40 "This time baby, our policy is; Bullet-Proof."
this is great.
MOO is awesome, by the way... lol
Danielito, tutorial,
OF COURSE! It should be a global policy. Now I'm accually happy that Facebook data scandal happened haha. Yay for the privacy policies.
MOO makes business cards.
*This guy's smart* 😛
Anyways up till now most companies have a lotta data of people already!! 😀
I applaud the EU, could never see this happening in America.