Webuser Magazine 449 Back Issue

RECLAIM YOUR PRIVATE DATA
Forget the Royal Wedding the most important date for your calendar this month is 25 May, otherwise known as GDPR Day. Described as the biggest change to data-privacy law for twenty years, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) forces companies to come clean about what they do with our personal information, and gives us consumers welcome new powers over how our data is ‘processed’. Yet despite the looming deadline, the exact nature and effects of the GDPR remain vague and confusing. Perhaps The Village People should have reformed for a follow-up to ‘YMCA’ and danced us through the intricacies of the new regulation, dressed as data-protection officers. In this issue’s cover feature, we explain why GDPR affects anyone who uses the web. We answer all your questions about the tough new privacy rules, look at how your favourite sites and apps have responded to GDPR and reveal how you can view, control and delete your data.