Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens
Another big recent achievement of the European Parliament is the &quot;General Data Protection Regulation&quot; (GDPR) [1], which comes into effect in May 2018 and stipulates that companies can be fined up to 4% of their <i>worldwide turnover</i> when they fail to protect&#x2F;process the data of EU-based customers in a proper manner.<p>For example: say that LinkedIn was to experience a new data breach, and they fail to inform the authorities or their customers in time, then they can be fined for up to 120 million USD (based on a revenue of 5 billion USD)!<p>I&#x27;m surprised that it&#x27;s so little known here, as the impact will be massive.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Data_Protection_Regulation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Data_Protection_Regula...</a>