GDPR: Effective Tool or Paper Tiger?
When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) officially came into force across the EU in May 2018, the data protectionists had high hopes. A comment from 8com GmbH. Finally, violations of the protection of personal data should be punished with substantial fines, and digital corporations such as Facebook and Google should be put on the curb. But did the extensive set of rules, which at the time served as a model for data protection laws worldwide, have the desired effect? Poor enforcement "The hopes and expectations raised by this flagship law are turning into frustration at the slow enforcement," writes civil rights organization Access Now in its report on the occasion of ...