Research finds Facebook holds personally identifiable data on 40% of EU population | Droolin Dog dot Net

The EU’s massive General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect on May 25, which introduces harsher restrictions on how businesses can use and store the personal data of their customers. This will greatly affect foreign tech companies that operate within the EU, since they cannot use personal data as freely and as lucratively as they used to. Facebook is one of those companies and it will have to completely change its approach to personal data — at least for their European users — according to a recently published study by researchers at the University Carlos III of Madrid.… This story continues at The Next Web Or just read more coverage about: Facebook Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/iRFkvkS_Hd8/ Tags: > Tech and Science | #ScienceTech, #pch3lp, #TechNews, Apps and Programs | #Apps, pch3lp, Privacy | #Privacy, PCH3lp, TechNews

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