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Wild West: data privacy
看英国人狂喷美国人不注意用户信息保护，是野蛮人，实在是笑喷了……你要问我在哪里喷了？除了文章后半部分的具体指名道姓之外，建议你再琢磨琢磨这个文章标题，英国文化人真的 hin 阴险啊，喷得羚羊挂角不着痕迹~
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Wild West: data privacy
Companies across the world are currently scrambling to understand the General Data Protection Regulation, an EU law that comes into force next month.
GDPR is rules-heavy. But its premise—that consumers should be in charge of their personal data—is right. Users will gain access to information that firms hold on them, and will get the right to make corrections and transfer data to other organisations. Regulators can levy big fines if firms break the rules.
America, which has never managed to pass an overarching data-protection law, should take note. The failings of its self-regulation are becoming ever clearer. Companies’ arcane privacy policies obfuscate what they do with their users’ information (often pretty much anything they please). Firms including Facebook and Under Armour are currently embroiled in data scandals.
As trust leaches out of the system, innovation is likely to suffer. The era when America’s data economy thrived with hardly any rules is over.
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