Gadgetory

thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button and enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos so do you feel like whenever you type personal information into a webpage it probably ends up in the hands of an executive with dollar signs in his eyes holding court at a mad tea-party of advertisers and people with agendas well sadly that's less for paranoid delusion that I'd like and it's exactly the kind of thing that the European Union's to you general data protection regulation is trying to stop and because it was implemented so recently plenty of large tech firms have been scrambling to make sure they don't get caught on the wrong side of the law but what exactly does the law do so the basic idea is that any organization or business that either operates in the EU or handles data relating the people in the EU has a few responsibilities me the even of business here in Canada like Linus Media Group can find itself in hot water with the European authorities if I use something like let's say sell your email address to a company that makes explosive discount power supplies but I wouldn't do anything like that to you guys wait a minute but that doesn't mean your data can't be sold one of the biggest linchpins of the GDP are is consent if you're the EU you have a right to be informed about what type of data is being collected and why it's being collected before you hit OK and this pertains to lots of different types of data a single photo a comment you made on a public social media post and even your name are covered GE PR requires companies who specifically lay out each piece of data they're collecting from you for your consent to be valid after you've given your consent and the suck or whoever else gets their mitts on your sweet sweet personal information there are some more rules concerning how they have to store it specifically it has to be protected in some way whether it's through encryption or by keeping the data separate from other data that could be used together to identify an individual person so for example a national ID number should be sequestered from other information that could enable an attacker to work out who it belongs to and if the attacker does breach a database or if someone was just careless with the USB stick the organisation has to inform a Data Protection Authority within three days of when it found out and they'd also be on the hook to know too you yes you Auto from Berlin in the case of a really serious breach but it's a mere notifications isn't enough for you and you just want the data off their servers the GDP are also obligates companies to give you access to an on-demand or to delete your data upon request partly stemming the tide of the Internet is forever with a right to be forgotten though bear in mind that if one of your terrible hot text gets retweeted a million times there's nothing you can do to force private Internet users to delete their screen caps but back to businesses why would they comply with this well as it turns out there are serious consequences for businesses that don't handle your data with respect for willful violations or for repeat offenders the files can be as high as four percent of annual turnover and that may not sound like much but for large enterprises like Google that could amount to billions yes billions of dollars so this sounds pretty good if you're an EU resident but what if you live in the US Japan or Guinea Bissau well some tech firms like Facebook and Microsoft are implementing GD P are compliant features worldwide giving users outside the EU the same level of access and control but don't imagine this is out of the goodness of their hearts in reality it probably has more to do with it being more streamlined than having different policies for different locations and it's also not a great look from a public relations perspective to give you there's a certain places less robust stated protections just because they can so that's a great step towards a more global internet because I for one have had just about enough of geo blocking and are you interested in computer science well then check out brilliant a problem solving website that teaches you to think like a computer scientist instead of just passively listening to lectures you get to master concepts by solving fun and challenging problems and brilliant provides the tools and framework you need to tackle those challenges brilliant stop provoking content based around breaking up complexities into bite-sized understandable chunks will lead you from curiosity to mastery and you'll be in the company of over five and a half million members who share your curiosity and love for math and science so what are you waiting for you can support tech wiki and learn more about brilliant by clicking the link in the video description or by going to brilliant org slash Linus tech tips and signing up for free the first 200 people to go to the link will get 20% off an annual subscription so be sure to check it out okay guys thanks for watching Tech Book II like this light get subscribed check out our other channels and leave the comment below with suggestions for future videos