According to Wikipedia, GDPR arrives on the 25th of May. Do you know it services are truly forced to comply from that day onwards or should we wait even longer?
They are forced to comply at that point - they've had 2 years to get ready.
It's going to be very interesting to see what happens. Actual compliance I strongly suspect is going to depend on whether they enforce it - and actually levy a fine of 4% of total annual revenue against a significant company.
Apropos nothing, I remember reading an article a few years ago about how Facebook was using blue ray disks for long term storage.
Now if I was responsible for this thing, I would wait 6 months or so, and then tell all the Data Protection Authorities that their bonuses were directly linked to revenue from enforcement ... and sit back and watch the fun.
If we log on from the UK or another European company after the 25th and delete the account from there, will they apply the GDPR based deletion, where they actually delete the data?
Strictly it only applies to residents of the EU, how much attention companies will pay to that, is another matter. But given the risks associated with not deleting data, I suspect most companies will err on the side of safety.
It's going to be very interesting to see what happens. Actual compliance I strongly suspect is going to depend on whether they enforce it - and actually levy a fine of 4% of total annual revenue against a significant company.
Apropos nothing, I remember reading an article a few years ago about how Facebook was using blue ray disks for long term storage.
Now if I was responsible for this thing, I would wait 6 months or so, and then tell all the Data Protection Authorities that their bonuses were directly linked to revenue from enforcement ... and sit back and watch the fun.