As we approach the one-year anniversary of the GDPR which went into effect on 25 May 2018, we can now review the benefits and pitfalls of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. While many businesses, primarily Google, have been fined a total of €56 million for GDPR breaches out of over 200,000 reported cases and over 59,000 reported breaches in the first eight months, there are more practical questions for how the GDPR has affected the culture of technology and the everyday use of the internet.
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