{"id":2604,"date":"2018-01-30T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:37:36","slug":"gdpr-countdown-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/gdpr-countdown-started\/","title":{"rendered":"GDPR: The countdown has started"},"content":{"rendered":"
Facebook would like to give its 2 billion users more control over their own data, before the new EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into force directly at the end of May 2018.<\/p>\n
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) aims to give European citizens more control over their data and how companies handle it. Should companies contravene the regulations, they will now be facing substantially higher fines (penalties) than previously.<\/p>\n
The world\u2019s largest social network, Facebook, has responded proactively with new privacy setting options. \u201cWe’re rolling out a new privacy<\/a> center globally that will put the core privacy settings for Facebook in one place and make it much easier for people to manage their data,\u201d the news agency Reuters quotes Sheryl Sandberg<\/a>, Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Facebook, as having said at a company event in Brussels. For many years Facebook has repeatedly come under fire over data protection, for instance due to invasive marketing activities or ambiguous wording in its terms of use.<\/p>\n