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I ask "why should Europeans be entitled to a greater degree of privacy than the rest of the world?" Also could becoming compliant with GDPR hold hidden benefits?

When you register a domain the domain registration information is publicly available by default. What does that mean and should you enable privacy protection?

Yesterday the chocolate spread company Nutella, tweeted some very bad password. I checked the password advice and found it had been involved in 20,833 data breaches.

Today is world password and a great day to introduce to a new podcast I have launched called "Perry on Privacy." I am constantly surprised at how easy it can be to hack someones password, servers, social accounts, bank etc. When I am in need of advice, insight and general direction when it comes to passwords, I turn to the world leader on passwords and developer of the Have I Been Pwned tool, "Troy Hunt."

https://blog.thexyz.com/2018/05/happy-world-password-day-time-to.html

Businesses, large and small, are in the midst of preparing for compliance with the Europeans Union’s new data privacy laws: The General Data Protection Regulation, or the GDPR, which will go into effect on May 25, 2018.

What is it?

It was passed by the European lawmakers to create a harmonized data privacy law across all the EU member states. Its purpose is to:

Support privacy as a fundamental human right;

Require companies that handle personal data to be accountable for managing that data appropriately; and give individuals rights over how their personal data is processed or otherwise used.

In a nutshell, GDPR defines personal data as “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.”

Okay, so what does that mean?

In addition to the kinds of information you might think about – name, address, email address, financial information, contact information, identification numbers, etc., personal data can in some cases be information related to your dig

The term "Late Majority" now includes everyone and not just people that didn't grow up with computers.