Initially, the GDPR was created to codify and unify data privacy laws across European Union member countries while also serving as the legal basis for protecting user data. A secondary ethos of the GDPR was to redress the imbalance of power between big tech and consumers, forcing big tech companies to be accountable for how they use data. Many shared their thoughts as to how the GDPR has affected both internet culture and their personal use. Those working in tech, however, recount a slightly different story as to how the GDPR has changed tech culture. Or, as one Twitter user told expressed, “I read a lot fewer articles in US papers/magazines.”Almost a year into GDPR and the UK’s own Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) staff haven't been handed a GDPR privacy notice which is both comic and indicative of the very complexities that the GDPR has impacted upon European tech culture.

Source: Forbes May 05, 2019 20:03 UTC