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The European General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) law was enforced in May, but is still confusing to some colocation  providers as to which requirements they must comply with and how. So, I talked to an expert on the subject and came away with a clear answer: “It depends.” GDPR is all about ensuring the privacy of consumers’ personal data and giving them more control over how data is used and for how long (as explained in this previous post arguing why it’s necessary ). It’s important because it applies to any organization of any size that stores or processes any kind of personal data on EU residents. For all intents and purposes, that means just about any EU company to the extent each holds data on its own employees. But it also applies to companies outside the EU that hold data on EU residents – again, that’s a lot of companies. GDPR Basics: Data Controllers vs. Data Processors Mark Bailey is a partner at the UK law firm Charles Russell Speechlys and an expert on var...

Google’s Leadership Still Needs To Give Details About Project Dragonfly: Googlers Can Still Help Earlier this week, we joined with Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Article 19, and 10 other international human rights groups in a letter to Google’s senior leadership, calling on the company to come clean on its intentions in China – both to the public, and within the company. A little background: it’s been almost a month since The Intercept first broke the story that Google was planning to release a censored version of its search service inside China. Since that time, very little new information about the effort, known as Project Dragonfly, has come to light. Over 1, 4 00 employees have asked Google to be more transparent about the search giant’s plans, but at an all-hands meeting executives only responded with generalities before the conversation was cut short . Google certainly hasn’t provided the public with any details, leaving many in the human rights community to c...