BENGALURU: Prompted by new European privacy regulations, companies are rolling out updates of their policies to improve user privacy. Users are being flooded with email updates of the policies and the kind of data they will be sharing with their ecosystem partners. The law allows the EU residents to request data kept on them and adds restrictions to how companies keep data on them. “I thought the point of #GDPR was to “reduce” the amount of pointless unsolicited emails Iget?” quipped a user on Twitter.Large tech firms like Google Facebook and Twitter too have updated their privacy policy in compliance with GDPR. Facebook has updated its privacy policy and has made it available in 11Indian languages.

Source: Economic Times May 27, 2018 22:07 UTC