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Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sat May 26, 2018 1:15am
- Tae
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Posted on: Sat May 26, 2018 6:40am
Thank you for the post.
I wonder what's going on because a ton of places are all updating their policies the last couple of days.... And not just like game sites. Stuff like stores and social media and ride share services... some thing must have happened some where.
- Maglania
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Posted on: Sat May 26, 2018 6:54am
A new law just came into force on the 25th of May, from the European Union. It enforces controls that need to be taken for people with websites of any kind or any business that deals with personal information. Good for Aywas to be on board.
- bun. 🐇
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Posted on: Sat May 26, 2018 9:21am
my only question is why the privacy policy link on the bottom of the page is in all caps now? o: i'm p. sure that isn't part of gdpr compliance b/c aywas is the only updated site i've seen with that.
(alternatively maybe aywas just feels like S C R E A M I N G which i can understand pls resume ur screm)
- Gwennafran
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Posted on: Sat May 26, 2018 10:43am
Tae (#66637)
As mentioned, it's a new regulation within the EU meant to protect private personal information. The essential philosophy behind is, that personal information is the property of the person the data is about. That means companies can't just use it without specific consent from the person (or information about use given to the person the data belongs to, depending on the situation). The whole mess with Facebook personal data being stolen and abused, that was revealed a few months ago, is exactly the sort of thing the law is meant to protect you against.
While the main idea is great, the execution is a mess. Essentially, every single new regulation makes sense in some sort of context. Only... It's now meant to be uphold by everyone, and not just that tiny segment where it really makes sense. Combined this with truly epic fines if the regulation is broken, and pretty much all companies dealing with personal data within the EU is in a panic.
- Mew
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Posted on: Sun May 27, 2018 10:36pm
Not so much Facebook stole the data--- we all sign Facebook TOS and agreed that they could collect information which may be given to third party--- but because it was used in a way that certain people disliked it suddenly became a federal issue and thereby caused laws to be written.
- Gwennafran
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Posted on: Mon May 28, 2018 12:44pm
Mew (#3734)
It was theft, but somewhat complicated and muddy theft. The data was stolen from Facebook, but it wasn't actually Facebook doing the stealing, even if you'd think it was by the way some sources goes about it.
Only 270,000 users gave explicit permission for their data to be used by a specific app, yet somehow, that app got data from 87 million users. That means the data from the remaining 86,730,000 users was taken without permission (aka theft). And then the people collecting the data broke Facebook TOS by giving it on to another third party (Cambridge Analytica).
Interestingly, that particular loop hole was closed by Facebook, years before the whole thing reached the news. But it has served as a hefty wake-up call for some on just how much information you give away to social medias.
- ChaosAzeroth
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Posted on: Mon May 28, 2018 3:03pm
My brother explained that if you know someone on FB, they could technically get information about you too without your knowledge or consent. Many people who were not on FB had this happen to them. This shouldn't happen. Even if you are being cautious, short of not being online at all (which is harder than you might think with like half the applications even in this small town being online as well as being required to use the internet for school since I was in High School) these things can happen to you.
- Maglania
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Posted on: Tue May 29, 2018 2:42pm
The important part is the way the personal information is used. The universal common case is your email address being sold to mailing lists for marketers to spam you. But there are other more subtle and hidden ways to use our information these days, which have to do with tracking our activities online with cookies, for example, then using that information to show us advertising of certain politicians, fake news, etc and make us change our mind on important subjects that will end in election results and such. We think we are so smart and nobody can fool us. Yet, they do it everyday. That's what the Facebook matter was about. The EU regulation is about this too, but it was in place much before the Facebook thing happened. It just came into force now.
Posted on: Sat May 26, 2018 4:56am
this is the shortest update I've received for this GDPR thing, and therefore the best. Thanks.