Our organization and its people are rooted in in a commitment to privacy. You already have control of your privacy in Firefox, Firefox Focus, Pocket and all our products.

Bonus points: All those emails are a hint to disconnect from services you’ve forgotten about. It’s (mostly) not fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s because organizations are getting their policies and practices into GDPR compliance. We’ve all been bombarded with emails about updated privacy policies and terms of service. Even though they are not strictly required, some organizations are taking a principled (and perhaps easier) approach, providing the same set of controls and protections to non-EU residents. Thanks to something called “ territorial scope,” any organization that deals with data of EU residents must comply with the GDPR for those individuals, which impacts global organizations like Apple and Facebook. If you live outside of Europe, you’re probably wondering what a European law has to do with you. Even though it’s driven out of Europe, the GDPR impacts the whole world. The GDPR went on the books in May 2016, giving anyone who collects customer data plenty of time to prepare.

This wasn’t a sneak attack by the European institutions.

The General Data Protection Regulation gives the European Union the power to hold businesses and organizations accountable for how they collect and handle personal data - your data.īusinesses and organizations have had two years to get ready. And the reason is that on Friday, May 25, 2018, a new law takes effect in Europe - the General Data Protection Regulation aka the “GDPR.” If you don’t know what that means or how it affects you, read on.

Has your email inbox been filling up with privacy policy updates? It seems like every service, app or subscription I’ve signed up for (including more than a few I’ve forgotten about) is sending me one.

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