Since the European Union (EU) enacted the Data Protection Directive in 1995, extraction of personal data from the internet has changed drastically. To stay current with these developments, the EU has constructed a strict set of guidelines for the protection of personal data across all 28 member states: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The intention of the Data Protection Directive was to harmonize EU data privacy laws, but the framework was still largely open to interpretation from state to state and had become outdated in terms of users’ needs and concerns. Functioning off the premise that data privacy is a basic human right, the GDPR calls for a synchronized ordinance with unrelenting financial ramifications for those who do not comply.
