{"id":8249,"date":"2018-05-25T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2018-05-25T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:01:58","slug":"eus-new-data-protection-rules-come-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/eus-new-data-protection-rules-come-into-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"EU&#8217;s new data protection rules come into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7379\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Hacking-Virus.jpg\" alt=\"Hacking Virus\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" \/>The European Union&#8217;s new data protection laws came into effect on Friday, with Brussels saying the changes will protect consumers from being like &#8220;people naked in an aquarium&#8221;.<br \/>\nEven though the rules were officially adopted two years ago, with a grace period until now to adapt to them, companies have been slow to act, resulting in a last-minute scramble this week.<br \/>\nBritain&#8217;s data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office (ICO), said that its site had experienced &#8220;a few interruptions&#8221; as the deadline loomed, but said that &#8220;everything is working now&#8221;.<br \/>\nBrussels insists that the laws will become a global benchmark for the protection of people&#8217;s online information, particularly in the wake of the Facebook data harvesting scandal.<br \/>\n&#8220;The new rules will put the Europeans back in control of their data,&#8221; said EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova.<br \/>\n&#8220;When it comes to personal data today, people are naked in an aquarium.&#8221;<br \/>\nCompanies can be fined up to 20 million euros ($24 million) or four percent of annual global turnover for breaching the strict new data rules for the EU, a market of 500 million people.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/eus-new-data-protection-rules-come-into-effect\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s new data protection laws came into effect on Friday, with Brussels saying the changes will protect consumers from being like &#8220;people naked in an aquarium&#8221;. Even though the rules were officially adopted two years ago, with a grace period until now to adapt to them, companies have been slow to act, resulting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8250,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions\/8250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}