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13 lines
679 B
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data protection
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A system of laws intended to protect personal data from misuse by individuals
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or organizations. The first data protection laws were passed in the 1980s,
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and there have been various updates since. One of the best known data
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protection laws is the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
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which came into action in 2018.
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The effectiveness of data protection laws, though perhaps well-intended, has
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always been questionable and enforcement has been negligible or entirely
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absent despite conspicuous violations. Attempts to lawyer your way out of
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the problem of data misuse are less effective than using technical
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measures, such as client side encryption. |