Concerning Privacy

GDPR

The EU has surpassed the United States in protecting the freedom of it's citizens. EU citizens are now in control of their personal data. To the extent that we live in a digital age, that means they are in control of their lives. They have newly recognized rights that were mentioned on the front page.

The E.U. ratified the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and it took effect in 2018.

U.S. businesses are required to provide the following rights to Europeans but not required to provide them to Americans. Most Americans have none of these rights.

Each E.U. citizen now has a fundamental right to;

1. access - be informed what personal data is collected and how is it used
2. notification - be informed when that data has been mishandled or leaked
3. receive - be permitted to see, correct, or obtain that data.
4. be forgotten -be "forgotten" means all this data can be taken back.

The US advocacy organization working to fix this is

Electronic Privacy Information Center

The collection, use, and storage of your personal information is an issue of privacy. PII - Personally Identifiable Information - is data that can uniquely identify you, the real you. With artificial intelligence processing this data... there are enormous consequences. Especially if you leave pieces of data laying all over the place... you wouldn't do that with the contents of your wallet.

All of us are in the same situation, we have left the door open to identity theft, surveillance, embarrassment, blackmail, harassment, psychological manipulation and, depending where you live - government persecution... depending on how you define persecution.

There are two ways to address the situation;

Stop giving away your data when using the internet.
This is all the time and certainly difficult to do.

Demand the fundamental rights
that every person deserves in the information age.

... Europeans did

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