We’ve come a long way since the start of the internet and a lot of progress has been made in the past 3 years in terms of data protection which hold companies accountable for their actions €20 million or 4% of their annual income is a start, but the problem is that a lot of these companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook to name a few are too big to fail with their pockets too deep; the fines need to be higher.
Under the GDPR, if you are an EU citizen you have the right:
- to access your personal data
- to be provided with information about how your personal data is processed
- to have your personal data corrected
- to have your personal data erased in certain circumstances
- to object to or restrict how your personal data is processed
- to take any complaints about how we process your data to the Data
- Protection Authority in your country.