Europe's sweeping data protection law came into force on Friday. Facebook (FB) and its subsidiaries Whatsapp and Instagram, as well as Google (GOOGL), are facing lawsuits for failure to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). "There is no grace period," James Dipple-Johnstone, the deputy commissioner of the UK's data protection authority. Related: Everything you need to know about GDPRSchrems has been fighting Facebook over data protection for almost a decade. "So really, Facebook can infer things from the great amount of data it has about you from across your mobile devices and apps that also send data to Facebook.

Source: CNN May 25, 2018 08:26 UTC