Recently I have received a lot of Privacy Policy updates from cloud services: twitter, google, gitlab, github, slack, etc. Very noisy IMHO.<p>I don't really know if I should spend time to learn new updates. Should the service provide some `diff`? Is my account closed if I don't read/learn new policy? Is new update compatible with old ones? bla bla whatever, the question is why these services are sending updates almost at the same time/?<p>What's wrong with them, or my account(s)?
Yesterday, a sweeping new EU privacy regulation called the GDPR (General Data Privacy Regulation) came into effect, imposing a whole bunch of new data-privacy requirements on companies which do business with EU citizens.<p>Since almost all large cloud services are international, many have simply done a blanket update to their privacy policies and terms of service to comply with the law for all of their customers, regardless of nationality. That's why you've been receiving emails lately.<p>For the most part, not much will change with your day-to-day interactions with these websites, but if they didn't provide it before, you can probably now submit a request for all the data they have on you and submit a request to have your information completely deleted. There's a whole bunch of other rights, too - in fact, you can read the full text of the law here: <a href="https://gdpr-info.eu/" rel="nofollow">https://gdpr-info.eu/</a>
It's because of the entry into force today of the GDPR: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...</a>