General Data Protection Regulation (Computer Law)

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legal act created by European Union brought into force in 2018 (Afifi-Sabet, 2020).  This act covers many aspects of people's privacy such as method of collecting personal information, way of using cookie files and what type of information is counted as a personal data.

GDPR changed the range of data, which is personal. After forced this act, every online identificator such as email address, IP address and browser history is personal data. Moreover, before GDPR many companies were collecting and storing as much data about the users as possible. Now the way of collecting and storing data is limited by GDPR. For example, it is prohibited to collect sensitive data such as users religion and beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions (privacypolicies.com, 2020).

As a part of this regulation, people can see an information about cookie files on websites. This is a part of GDPR as well. Previously, websites just inform they are using cookie files. Now, user has choice and can block collecting the cookie files (Irwin, 2020).

Amazon website with information about cookies (Amazon.com, 2020)




References:


Afifi-Sabet, K., 2020. What Is GDPR? Everything You Need To Know, From Requirements To Fines. [online] Itpro.co.uk. Available at: <https://www.itpro.co.uk/it-legislation/27814/what-is-gdpr-everything-you-need-to-know> [Accessed 4 December 2020].

Amazon.co.uk. 2020. Amazon.Co.Uk: Low Prices In Electronics, Books, Sports Equipment & More. [online] Available at: <https://www.amazon.co.uk/> [Accessed 11 December 2020].

 Irwin, L., 2020. How The GDPR Affects Cookie Policies - IT Governance Blog En. [online] IT Governance Blog En. Available at: <https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/how-the-gdpr-affects-cookie-policies> [Accessed 4 December 2020].

 

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