Addressing privacy concerns and bringing more disclosure to users is long overdue, but the 72-hour reporting rule might do more harm than good.
The past week was important for you and your personal information, whether or not you live in the EU.
GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation that sets guidelines about how personal information of EU citizens is collected and processed, is now official. It`s a great idea — uniform rules about how your information is gathered, how it`s stored, and how you can take it back, are long overdue. There has been (and will continue to be) plenty of discussion over what`s good, bad and ugly about GDPR, but most people who work in information security agree that the goals are well-intentioned and will provide the kind of protections we all need in the 21st century.
A bunch of popular websites just aren`t available to European visitors because you aren`t GDPR-compliant.
The individual articles of GDPR, however, aren`t so universally pr...
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