Headline March 03, 2018/ ''' *DATA'S GLOBAL DUDES* '''

''' *DATA'S GLOBAL DUDES* '''

*RECORDING THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY'S DREAMS* - for the present and the future generations - and for the -

*Leaders of the free world, Grandparents, Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the entire world, and even for the entire mankind* -

Senior lecturer Mohammed Hammad Khan, from the UK, the nominated *Global Head of the World Students Society's Security and Data Privacy*-

Will regularly publish his : Research, Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations on *!WOW! Portal* in the making :
www.worldstudentssociety.org.

The World's *Global Laws for Security and Data Privacy* is just one model for us to comprehend.  And that maybe no model for The World Students Society.

So, as Tech Giants brace for Europe's Data rules, The World Students Society, and top researcher, Zilli, watches the developments with every moments interest.

The coming of the new European 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 effects in 2018, we will be ready,'' He said. This confidence should help  The World Students Society, until its gone.

The biggest challenge, he said, has been preparing for the regulation's mandate that people in Europe must have control how their digital data is organized.

Google, he said, has had to go through each of its services - from Gmail to its Cloud storage services - to comply.

Since the new rules require individuals to give their consent before a company accesses data, for example, Google has had to redesign many consent agreements, as well as change underlying technology to make it easier to remove someone's data.

''''For a company with infrastructure of our size, it takes a lot of work,'' Mr. Golan said.

Facebook has also taken multiple steps to deal with the coming rules. One February Sunday,  the company began offering a new privacy center that puts users security settings-

On one page instead of dispersing them across different sections of the social network.

While the company said the changes were separate from its preparations for the new European regulations, Facebook's  chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, connected the two in a speech in Brussels some weeks ago.

The new privacy center would give Facebook, ''a very good foundation to meet all the requirements of the  G.D.P.R. and spur us on to continue investing in products and in educational tools to protect privacy,'' Ms. Sandberg said.

Rob Sherman, Facebook's  deputy chief privacy officer, said the social network also held a series of  ''Design Jams,'' where it invites designers and engineers to reimagine how products look so that people can more easily see and control their online data.

With the new rules coming, Facebook also decided not to roll out some products in Europe that would violate the privacy laws.

Last November, for instance, the company unveiled a program that uses artificial intelligence  to monitor Facebook users for signs of self-harm.

But it did not open the program to users in Europe, where the company would have to ask people for permission to access sensitive health data, including about their mental state.

The social network has also kept out of Europe facial recognition software that tracks when photos of users are posted across the platform.

Amazon, too, has made changes. Last April, the company wrote a blog post outlining its efforts to comply with the new European regulations.

The Internet retailer said it would strengthen the encryption around the data it stores on its cloud storage services and reaffirmed the rights of customers to choose which region - Europe or otherwise - where they want their data stored. Amazon declined to discuss the work.

Some American tech  companies said they welcomed the new data protection rules.

''We embrace  G/D.P.R.  because it sets a standard for privacy and data protection rights, which is at the core of our business,'' Julie Brill, a corporate vice president and deputy general counsel at Microsoft, said in an interview.

''We began work on G.D.P.R.  as soon as it was adopted by the European Union. Our preparations for the G.D.P.R. touch every part of our company.''

How the biggest tech companies handle the regulations will most likely influence their smaller counterparts.

Angelo Spenillo, general counsel for Siteimprove, which helps companies manage their presence online, said many small tech companies have been looking toward Google and Facebook for how user privacy and data will be managed online.

''Where the bigger companies go, the smaller companies will follow suit,'' he said. ''We're going to see real changes across the board.''

Ms. Jourova said that as the new rules take effect, countries outside Europe could begin demanding similar data protection measures for their citizens.

''There will be a moment, especially as more and more people in the U.S. find themselves uncomfortable with the channels monitoring their private lives,'' she said.

With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of the United Kingdom. and then the world. 

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