Headline March 02, 2018/ ''' EUROPE'S -DATA PRIVACY- *ELIXIR* '''

''' EUROPE'S -DATA PRIVACY- 

*ELIXIR* '''

SENIOR LECTURER - MUHAMMAD HAMMAD KHAN,  from UK, is one beautiful teacher  that you all, ought to know,  and say a quick Hello to-

Well mannered, Kind, Honest, Fair, and  independent minded,......  Full of fun, very full of laughter, with a very developed sense of the  British humour, is also a Football fanatic.

A distinguished former student of Saint Mary's, an MBA from Greenwich University, and Masters in Strategic Marketing from Reading University, UK.

It is Hammad Khan, that I have the honor to nominate him as the Global Head of The World Students Society's brace of total Data rules. 

The students would be delighted to have him see us through to the Global Elections and just beyond.

And I do that just as we begin our preparations and plans to move to our actual portal : www.worldstudentssociety.org.     

ALL TECH GIANTS BRACE for Europe's new privacy rules and in some cases, companies have chosen to remove products from the market.

Over the past two months or so, Google has started letting  people around the world choose what data they want to share with its various products, including Gmail and Google Docs.

Amazon recently began improving the data encryption  on its cloud storage service and simplified an agreement with customers over how it processes their information.

And just one recent Sunday, Facebook rolled out a new global data privacy center - a single page that allows users to organize who sees their posts and what type of ads they are served.

While these changes are rippling out worldwide, a major reason for these shifts comes from Europe.

The Tech Giants are preparing for a stringent new set of data privacy rules in the region, called the  General Data Protection Regulation.

Set to take effect on May 25, the regulations restrict what types of personal data the tech companies can collect, store and use across the 28-member European Union.

Among their provisions, the rules enshrine the so-called right to be forgotten into European law so people can ask the companies to remove certain online data about them.

The rules also require anyone under 16 to obtain parental consent that before using popular digital  services. If companies do not comply, they could face fines totaling 4 percent of their annual revenue.

With deadline for the new rules now just a few months away, Silicon Valley's tech behemoths have been scrambling to get ready.

Facebook and Google have deployed hundreds of people make sense of the regulations. Many of the companies have overhauled how they give users access to their own privacy settings.

Some have redesigned certain products that suck up too much user data. And in some cases, companies have removed products entirely from the European market because they would violate the new privacy rules.

''Every person who works for us has, in some way, been involved in preparing the company for G.D.P.R,'' said Doug Kramer, general counsel of CloudFare an Internet performance and security based in San Francisco that has tightened its data storage and processing practices, referring to the initials for the General Data Protection Regulation.

''G.D.P.R. is going to introduce very fundamental changes to the way the Internet works for everyone.''

The rush of activity is a reminder of how Europe has set the regulatory standard in reining in the immense power of  tech giants, while other places - including the United States - have largely taken a  noninterventionist stance.

The rules were approved to late 2015 after tech companies like Facebook ran into problems over data protection with national privacy watchdogs in various European countries.

European officials said the coming rules are forcing American tech giants to take a step back.

''There has not been any pushback from American companies,'' said Vera Jourova, the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality.

''If anything they seem very eager to understand how exactly they can comply with the regulation.''

Officials from Facebook, Google and other companies said in an interview that they had been working to give people more control over what data they share anyway.

In the past, many of the companies fought back in European courts over privacy rules and declined to offer certain products in the region rather than redesign them to meet privacy standards.

*The coming of the new rules has nonetheless pushed a huge scale of internal change*.

Gilad Golan, Google's director for security, and data protection, said at a San Francisco event last month to introduce new security features:

''When G.D.P.R. goes into effect in 2018, we will be ready,'' he said.

And concomitantly, when the students decide and set a date for Global Elections on The World Students Society, we all will be ready.

The Honor and Serving of the latest ''Operational Research'' on Privacy, Security and Laws continues. And The World Students Society thanks writer and researcher Sheera Frenkel.

With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all  register on !WOW! - The World Students Society and Twitter - !E-WOW! - the Ecosystem 2011:

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