“Terms and conditions” for companies everywhere might be translated into plain English as per the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect in May. (For reference, PayPal’s terms and conditions are currently longer than F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby.)
While we’re on data: JPMorgan hired a security expert to keep an eye on bank staff, but there’s controversy about whether or not he went too far — using software by Palantir, Peter Thiel’s data-mining company, to collect GPS locations, phone conversation transcripts and more.
