Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Data must be encrypted and backed up properly in multiple locations to ensure its security.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force on 25th May 2018. Issues such as data privacy pose concerns following the allegations that social media giant Facebook allowed British firm Cambridge Analytica to harvest the data from many of its 87 million subscribers. This raises questions about how social media companies, whose platforms are based on data-sharing and on using subscriber data to enable advertisers to target them, can comply with GDPR.

The New York Times writes on 11th April 2018, following Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony: “Mr. Zuckerberg made a promise. He said that Facebook planned to give users worldwide the same privacy controls required by a tough new data protection law that will take effect in the European Union next month.” The case adds questions about how personal data should be protected, and how permission to use it or sell it to a third-party should be done with complete transparency – and GDPR could be the model that social media needs going forward.

Discover how to move your data securely. 

Published by IT Pro Portal on 19th April 2018. By-line: David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks. 

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