Building Internet Walls to Protect Data Could Penalize Users

There are billions of internet users and every corporation has a virtual finger in the pie. But privacy laws differ widely. Pixabay

General data protection regulations (GDPR) sound like something the average person needs to know nothing about. On the contrary, these rules affect us on a day-to-day basis.

For the last 20 years, most jurisdictions have had similar requirements regarding corporations maintaining the privacy of their consumers’ data. The differences were more to do with flavour than the substance of the task.