A data privacy activist has targeted YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Spotify, and Soundcloud, alleging in official complaints that they’re all in violation of sweeping data protection legislation the European Union put into effect in May 2018.
Max Schrems and his Austria-based advocacy organization None of Your Business say all of these giants, as well as Austrian video-on-demand platform Flimmit and U.K.-based sports video distributor Dazn, aren’t meeting requirements laid out by Article 15 of the E.U.’s General Data Protection Regulation.
Article 15 gives users the ability to demand information about their personal data from online platforms. When a user requests information about how their data is being handled, platforms must hand over details about about how it’s being processed within the platform’s systems, whether it’s being shared to anyone else, how long it’s being stored by the platform, and more, Fortune reports.
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Max Schrems and his Austria-based advocacy organization None of Your Business say all of these giants, as well as Austrian video-on-demand platform Flimmit and U.K.-based sports video distributor Dazn, aren’t meeting requirements laid out by Article 15 of the E.U.’s General Data Protection Regulation.
Article 15 gives users the ability to demand information about their personal data from online platforms. When a user requests information about how their data is being handled, platforms must hand over details about about how it’s being processed within the platform’s systems, whether it’s being shared to anyone else, how long it’s being stored by the platform, and more, Fortune reports.
(Just to be clear,...
- 1/18/2019
- by James Loke Hale
- Tubefilter.com
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