The collection, storage, harvesting and usage of Personally Identifiable Information or data for gain without the knowledge and authorization of their owners have become a thorny issue since March 2018 for Facebook and its and Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. The discovery that over 87 million of data were secretly mined and sold to politicians with the intention to influencing voters’ choices in the 2015/2016 US general election by Cambridge Analytica has traumatized the world so fiercely than any other discovery in recent times.

While this revelation has cost Facebook approximately $ 80 billion in value since March 16, 2018, Mark Zuckerburg in an attempt to douse the situation had recently published a personal apology and made a pledge that “ We will reduce the data you give an app when you sign in… to only your name, profile photo, and email address. We’ll require developers to not only get approval but also sign a contract in order to ask anyone for access to their posts or other private data. And we’ll have more changes to share in the next few days.”

Today more search-lights are beamed in the monitoring, regulations, and management of data and their uses particularly on social media platforms and other avenues through which personal information are collected and shared.

More importantly too and for the notice of all, the European Union has passed into law the GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR) which come into effect on the 25th of May, 2018.

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Data protection laws are predicated upon one (or more) of four primary attributes of natural persons: nationality, residence, legal domicile, and location.For your understanding you can check 12 step GDPR compliance checklist and know more things about GDPR. Examples of data protection laws using each of these distinct attributes (in the same order): certain localization laws; (many) US State data breach laws; torts, such as intrusion upon seclusion and misuse of private information; and the GDPR.