Ok so GDPR it a regulation. Regulations don’t actually do anything. Why the question? With many well documented hacks occurring recently I’m seeing many comments claiming … if GDPR had implemented then the data wouldn’t have been exposed. To me that’s utter diatribe as a regulation is not a prot…

It does not protect your data, it only allows people and governments to sue corporations who abuse it. There have been some good moves overall when it comes to privacy because of the GDPR, for example the rulings against Google Analytics and Google Fonts. However, the theory behind the commentators …

As I figured and thanks :pray: My Observation FWIW The majority of successful cyber-attacks start with a failure to identify a fake email or SMS and responding to the fake links. The end result being sharing login information or passwords or a careless document download. It only takes one comprom…

Here you’re talking more about hacks. GDPR is more about disincentivizing companies to hoard mass personal data without clear purpose and adequate protection. I won’t cite every rulings the french CNIL has made to enforce GDPR, but I will say that specifically in France we can see (really slowly I…

There is this video from TechAlter about what GDPR went wrong and its flaws link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=v_W0wR4AClk

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