they told us the data protection laws apply to us in two ways to me as a tradesman and to me as a menace a plethora but i am only a one man authority he knows he has to protect his company's data but should he come under the same rules as giants like facebook. that's completely wrong to say someone with only four employees who does very little data processing needs a data protection manager that's simply not true. the responsible ministry acknowledges that the rules will need fine tuning but for now the search is on for a data protection manager. i think the deadlines may twenty fifth and if i can't find someone maybe i'll just appoint my wife but what if that's much use in terms of data protection is another story altogether. friday marked the second day of german chancellor angela merkel's trip to china she was in the southern take city of shenzhen german chancellor looks at chinese innovations and self driving cars an artificial intelligence in which china is said to be taking the lead business has been top of the agenda for america she called on her chinese counterpart region thing t

they told us the data protection laws apply to us in two ways to me as a tradesman and to me as i'm in a supply thorazine but i am only a one man authority he knows he has to protect his company's data but should he come under the same rules as giants like facebook. that's completely wrong to say someone with only four employees who does very little data processing needs a data protection manager that's simply not true. the responsible ministry acknowledges that the rules will need fine tuning. but for now the search is on for a day to protect manager. for once and i think the deadline is may twenty fifth and if i can't find for my maybe i'll just appoint my wife but what if that's much use in terms of data protection is another story altogether. so are the rules bad for small businesses we asked one of the architects of the law in brussels our correspondent matters caught up with vera your of of the e.u. commissioner for justice and consumers. making it too tough for smaller companies for the business environment in europe. i think that the g.d.p. are as one important feature it has t

europeans are one step closer to being back in control of their digital lives the ears flagship new data protection laws came into effect on friday the rules need that citizens can demand companies like facebook google and amazon disclose what kind of personal data they hold and what they do with it now citizens also have the right to have the data corrected or even delete it. whether you use the internet to search for information connect with friends or simply to do your shopping going online means sharing personal information but in many cases it's unclear exactly what happens to that data who has access to it what can companies do with it. the new e.u. legislation aims to address some of these issues. under the new rules companies will only be allowed to collect data relevant to their services so whether up for example won't be allowed to access your address book or photographs the new regulations also afford individuals the right to launch a complaint with a supervisory authority in their own country instead of potentially having to challenge a foreign company abroad those violating data protec

let's begin with the story of the day, data protection. breaches of data privacy and data protection law area big data privacy and data protection law are a big issue in africa? yes, and it is interesting that zuckerberg chose to appear in brussels as opposed to in the uk. i don't think of any african regulators summoned him to sure he would, he would probably send an executive. there are elections coming up in south africa and kenya had two macro elections last year and there are lots of concerns about facebook‘s influence, fake news. cambridge analytica did some work in the last two ke nya ns analytica did some work in the last two kenyans elections and how much data might have been stolen or abused, we will never know. if your data is harvested all citizens data is harvested en masse there is no way to get any reader is against these customers. social media platforms i hugely powerful across the african continent? yes, it is easy to get mobile phones are very cheap. there are protections for citizens who often do not know what are gettin

protection clubs and agencies can and forests are for follow up on complaints after that all the data protection agencies that are nearby will forward this complaint to the respective thought of protection agency that will handle the complaint it sounds very technical and is going to be easy it is easier because whatever you have for example whatever you have for requests just send it to the company the company is legally obliged to answer you request within four weeks should they not do it your father complained with any data protection agency that you know of that is nearby and you don't have to worry about anything after that because it will be forwarded we already have a case don't wait you know for example facebook already being sued for noncompliance on this this is. individual from from austria a privacy campaigner has accused them of effectively forcing users to give their consent to use their personal information how easy is it for companies to skirt the rules well we don't know yet how easy it is on a whole to skirt these rules because i think that we still need to get a little into th

agenda for machall and when it comes to working together on new technologies apple says better data protection is key she also called on president xi jinping to improve access for german companies in china that he is building a is engine for us so the chancellor is on a high tech who are checking out everything from artificial intelligence to. start ups as well has it got that far that the west is now trying to copy the chinese. well i don't see this happening yet but there is quite an anxiety that china might take the lead in artificial intelligence and that is because china has made huge progress in this in this area china. a lot of data chinese companies have a lot of data that they can process and everywhere where a lot of data is needed chinese companies are really really getting into the competition. tell me more about the political balancing act that merkel's trying to play at the moment being there at a time of high trade tensions between the u.s. and china as well as trying to cancellation of the kids on it. well yeah the trade the trade war between between the u.s. and china has put

they told us the data protection laws apply to us in two ways to me as a tradesman and to me as a municipal authority but i am only a one man authority he knows he has to protect his company's data but should he come under the same rules as giants like facebook. that's completely wrong to say someone with only four employees who does very little data processing needs a data protection manager that's simply not true. the responsible ministry acknowledges that the rules will need fine tuning. but for now the search is on for a day to protection manager. now you. might think the deadlines may twenty fifth different conference room and maybe i'll just appoint my wife but what if that's much use in terms of data protection is another story altogether. so while small business is trying to avoid trouble the big guys are already facing flak. for the first lawsuit filed under these laws journal that didn't take long did it no it didn't and we're talking about data protection activist friends who apart from being quick on the draw is probably very hard to get to know but anyway his are his organizati

without a doubt, data protection offence. data protection. why? because it's a low hanging fruit.ho would argue that these data protection breaches were low hanging fruits, they were easy gets? absolutely not. it was always the last part of the inquiry. the criminality alleged was the first part of the inquiry we'd investigate and data protection came in the wash—up of something we had to report. to call it low hanging fruit would not be true? no. i put this to iain livingston who has been the acting chief constable since september. a number of cases you are talking about were all cases that emerged from the legacy forces where it has taken an awful long time, through the crown and other agencies involved in the justice system, and when these came to court there was either insufficiency or the evidence wasn't appropriate. my primary objective is to prevent any breach so that people are properly trained and understand what their responsibilities are and use the data appropriately. absolutely, unapologetically, if people are abusing data and disclosing that to people they should not

is data privacy shake up comes into effect may twenty first it's designed to protect personal information and power users and control large scale businesses that gather data but smaller organizations could face difficulties. may twenty fifth day for anyone in the business of data collection the e.u. general data protection regulation has been welcomed by previously activists. digital users anyone on facebook or shopping online will have better tools to enforce their rights they can find out what companies know about them and apply to have mistakes rectified they can force companies to delete their data or stop them from processing that data and building a profile in the first about. what will change for users to begin with users will be better informed they must actively choose how they want their personal data to be processed and saved and they can withdraw consent at any time. he'll also be able to download data. or have it completed all together. who does it affect. anyone who processes personal data that includes information like names addresses or gender. but it's not just big corpor

all of the general data protection regulation put simply a new set of rules on data now the likes of facebook google or amazon have to tell us what postal danger of ours they hold what they do with it and we can even have it corrected or deleted they could face millions in fines if they don't but what about the small for butchers bakers and book shops but they are also required to follow the new regulation but without the same resources of multi-billion dollar empire and the hefty tome of g.d.p. rule book is hard to understand. a staff of paper. of the new e.u. data rules have chamber of class president stumped because it's from the heart of course it's heavy stuff and e.u. commissioner very euro vote tells us to keep cool the flood of information is more confusing than helpful the law wasn't really aimed at trades people. for brussels to create here that applies equally to social media giants as it does to small workshops and it's two hundred fifty six pages thick that's one page for every working day of the year it takes you all your time just to work out what they're after our mem

we have the general data protection regulation which will enter in to forces. we've had a lot of information that facebook supports this. but is this the case have you really taken one of the half billion people outside of the effective reach of. regulation people from other parts of the world who were previously covered but now it's not covered so is that is that true that figure that this regulation no longer. why to these people. but when you said that the regulation would be implemented insincerity what does that mean exactly. over the last few years there have been a large number of meetings with high ranking facebook officials within the e.u. with different commissioners for example different members of the you i think. ninety two different meetings that altogether millions have been spent on lobbying work here in the e.u. as well. as to try and postpone the data protection regulation is this really in the interests of facebook. we have to think about the relationship between power and society here and then just one. very last question that might not seem

it is the european union's general data protection regulation or gdpr.fects anyone who does business with people living in europe. and given the global nature of the internet these days, that pretty much means everyone. now so far, you might have encountered gdpr through all those e—mails you've been receiving asking you to resubscribe to mailing lists, but lots more is changing than that come friday, and lara lewington has the highlights. the gdpr affects the big internet players in the us but also smaller organisations and aims to protect users‘ personal data. at its heart, it requires everyone to design data protection into their offerings with privacy settings set to high by default. phone rings heard this before? all calls are recorded for training and security purposes. well, that may not be adequate under the gdpr, which states that you must actively give your consent, rather than it be assumed, and that you can withdraw that consent at any time. so, in this case, the company needs to wipe that call recording if you ask them to. eu citizens get th

let's put those two nigel from the uk public data protection agency.ly enforce are? we have been ready and preparing for this right couple of years now. we know what we wa nt to couple of years now. we know what we want to achieve and get the message out to the public. we're there to protect their rights and get the message out to organizations that they need to abide by the laws which are not meant to punish them by any means, there to help them strengthen their credibility with the public. we do it enough for a lot of cases. it's increased a lot in the last six 01’ it's increased a lot in the last six or 12 months. we're going to record another 170 people and we know there will be more complaints. what kind of approach are you going to take to enforcing and punishing? has always been pragmatic. the commissioner is a lwa ys been pragmatic. the commissioner is always of the opinion that the encouragement of education is the better way to go. as for this talk of big fines, it is nonsense. that is not how we want to work. those types of sanctions will be

shifts so those data protection is worth it. and now preprogramed all the internet influencers us without us ever realizing it this time trends of social networks. in social media to topics relevance is determined by the number of likes and other interactions it generates when algorithms a dent of fire relevant content they push it on to curated social feeds but trending topics can be manipulated through bots for instance concealers ordinary human users bots in social media can be programmed to automatically like and share certain content and network of bots can make topics appear more relevant than they really are the size of bot networks can grow and grow i.t. experts discovered one bot army with three hundred fifty thousand fake accounts. these armies will respond to certain social network hashtags when order to like or share they can quickly kick off a new trend. but they can also disrupt rising trends. one way is to create new trending topics that ousts targeted content from top lists another way is to post arbitrary links

affects the big internet players in the us but also smaller organisations and aims to protect users because personal dataims to protect users‘ personal data. at its heart, it requires everyone to design data protection into their offerings with privacy settings set to high by default. phone rings. heard this before? all calls are recorded for training and security purposes. well, that may not be adequate under the gdpr, which states that you must actively give your consent, rather than it be assumed, and that you can withdraw that consent at any time. so, in this case, the company needs to wipe that call recording if you ask them to. eu citizens get the right to access their personal data and also find out who the company has shared it with and how they got it in the first place. if it was acquired in a dodgy way, you can ask the company to delete it, as well is any data that affects your fundamental rights. and the data must be deleted anyway if it‘s no longer being used, so companies can‘t just hoard information on us for the sake of it. if it all goes wrong and the company fails to keep our data safe,

though all sounds well and good but are we regulating our digital economy to dest us data protections stand in the way of progress questions i want to discover here's a locker is technology and politics editor motherboards germany thank you very much for coming to the studio to raise or are we making life to dig difficult for the digital economy and i we actually preventing european success story like facebook you know i think quite the opposite i think this is a decision that was long overdue and i think in the light of hacking scandal so came about every day basically in the last year or so it is an important part for growing up and i mean growing up also for businesses to handle consumer daughter in a responsible way and also having informational duties to towards the customer so i think that is a very good step mark zuckerberg who's been very much the focus of criticism recently he said that his company is always in here to this regulation let's just listen in to what he said. giving people control of how they're doing as a minister has been a core principle of facebook for since

data protection ok just recently one example of technology standing in the way of a previous c. standing in the way just recently i was looking for flats in berlin and i looked online for flats and i checked out they wanted to check out the area with the check out the houses on google street view which i find incredibly useful and you know this is what i got this is i don't know whether we can see the yes the many many houses here in berlin are just blurred out because one person in the house demands that that the whole house is being. blood out we taking previously and data protection to fall well i think it is a choice and previously it is a choice and can be a choice and other countries can be kind of proud of the spro of that uses take on here because otherwise you have a lot of informational information or rights that are being used and i think that the new g.d.p. . if you are is a step in the direction that uses can actually os companies what are you doing with my daughter who's going to see what's who's going to use going to get it so to and this is i think important also

the ccu was obliged to report every suspected data protection breach. were accessing the police intelligence data base with no justifiable policing purpose. this meant some officers, who claimed they were using the system to help solve crimes, instead found themselves labelled corrupt and facing prosecution. alan. nice to meet you. alan cotton was a detective based in glasgow. in 2009 there was an attempted murder. there we re there was an attempted murder. there were firearms and machetes involved andi were firearms and machetes involved and i nearly lost in an. and eyewitness with a criminal background contacted him to pass on information about the attack. alan cotton looked at reports linked to the crime, even though it wasn't his case. would that have been normal for you to have looked at that. case. would that have been normal for you to have looked at thate case. would that have been normal for you to have looked at that. ? it would be normal for for you to have looked at that. ? it would be normalfor a professional detective to do so. you do not

they told us the data protection laws apply to us in two ways to me as a tradesman and to me as a municipal authority but i am only a one man authority he knows he has to protect his company's data but should he come under the same rules as giants like facebook. that's completely wrong to say someone with only four employees who does very little data processing needs a data protection manager that's simply not true. the responsible ministry acknowledges that the rules will need fine tuning. but for now the search is on for a day to protection manager. and i think the deadlines may twenty fifth confidential and maybe i'll just appoint my wife but what if that's much use in terms of data protection is another story altogether. so while small businesses trying to avoid trouble the big guys are already facing flak. more of the first lawsuit filed under these laws do you know that didn't take long to use no it didn't and we're talking about data protection activists who apart from being quick on the draw is probably very hard to get to know but anyway his his organization called none of your bus

and global data protection compliance. >> in the u.s. tre is no equivalent overarching legislation that applies across absolutely everything. instead what happens in the u.s. is you get very sector specific rules or rules that are designed to address specific risks.or so you getxample financial services privacy regulation or you get health related privacy regulations. but the challenges with that approach are that you can get gaps that fall between the miiole and so there are sectns of individua whose privacy are not protected in the same way as they aren europe. >> reporter: the new rules apply equally to a giant company like to the smallest firm that keeps anyone's data. we repeatedly askervgoogle to inw a spokesperson, but our requests were ignored. the companies are facing rigorous inspections from britain's data protection authority whose london base is here. the staff of the information commissioner is being beefed up to enfor the new european privacy regulations. dety commissioner steve wo can fine a company 4% of its global incom

we talked about data protection. mr. zuckerberg answered many of the questions, and also agreed to send in written answers to all of the questions he was not able to answer because of time. the european parliament was once again, on behalf of the political debate, was a success. defend that we can writess's -- citizen's in the european union. of course, mr. zuckerberg apologies are not looking for former -- firmer commitments, we will be following this up to make sure these commitments are respected. gettingking forward to his written answers on cambridge analytical. it is obvious that kind of thing should not happen again. it was requested of him that it should not happen again. he spoke of his commitments to increased checks, to make sure that majorit comes -- when it comes to major events or european elections, these kinds of things do not happen. i also talked to the other elections that are due to take place. of the new rules on data protection, which will come into force in two days time. monitorcontinue to develop

in a few days the general data protection regulation will enter into force. this is a very advanced regulation which will prevent abuse of personal data. today's meeting is just a starting point as we move towards a new form of governance for digital platforms. we are the regulators and at the conclusion of the hearings that will be taking place the parliament will be pointing out solutions that digital platforms should adopt to ensure that all future elections are free from the risk of manipulation. we need to define as soon as possible a set of rules that will allow for the proper functioning of the digital market. this will mean your responsibilities for operators and new rules for privacy, copyright and consumer rights. we do not want to do without social media, but we want to be able to use digital platforms without any danger to our personal privacy or even our security. there is the issue of terrorism out there and i'm sure that mr. zuckerberg will also say a few words about this situation. all too many terrorists have got in contact through the social

considered the key figure for you data protection law explains why. the microsoft and. i've been often called stop this and done towards. the so called don't need. it in the going to do will come soon for in this stuff. has to go for negotiating with microsoft alternative on the market that they can't go with the parks that's a. good. move. for months. of open source software. but these are just bean. beater is. just will be unless the issue isn't just. ministers and. inventive. and so it. appears. to be something. as early as twenty thirteen the commission adopted a program to free the european institutions and member states from the dependence on a few american software companies. why have the commissioners abandoned this policy. i don't think we're abundances this police but the only solution is to invest more to catch the critic is that using this microsoft mono culture in public i t systems these public systems being held very vulnerable that same genes are operating systems and then and no cyber threats anymore so my boss said really but there's a big difference i

your inbox has no doubt been flooded with them, those emails about general data protection regulation, or gdpr. i know mine has! they're meant to give us more control over the data companies hold on us. but have they failed to get that message across? tell us what you think, just use #bbcthebriefing. the american film producer, harvey weinstein, accused by dozens of actresses of sexual misconduct over a ao—year period, is expected to give himself up to police in new york today. eight months after women began claiming they'd been assaulted and propositioned, it's understood he has agreed to appear in court in manhattan. harvey weinstein has insisted that all the sex was with consent. here's our north america correspondent, david willis. harvey weinstein, once a fixture on the red carpet, it seems his dramatic fall from grace is about to enter a new chapter. the man who racked up oscars for films such as shakespeare in love is today expected to turn himself into detectives and face charges of sexual assault. among his accusers is lucy evans, formerly an aspiring actress who claims the m

the general data protection regulation, or gdpr, affects how companies and organisations collect, storehow companies can use your personal data? with me now to answer some of your questions, chris foxx, bbc‘s technology correspondent, and annabel kaye, an employment law and hr specialist and co—founder of koffeeklatch, a firm that consults on gdrp. good to see you. let us begin at the very beginning. what exactly is gdpr? it is a new law in the eu which is meant to standardise data protection laws so everyone is on the same page. it has a further scope because even companies outside the eu in china and the us will have to follow the new rules if they are offering their services within the eu and it gives us new rights such as a ccess eu and it gives us new rights such as access and erasure so you can go toa as access and erasure so you can go to a big company and say you want a copy of all of your information and they have to give it to you and if you are not happy for them to have it so as as consumers it is good news. annabel, these companies want to maintaina news. annabel, these com

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us here lawmakers have demanded better data protection and privacy measures from facebook's c.e.o. mark zuckerberg face questioning at the european parliament in brussels in the wake of a massive data scandal at the company but a byzantine committee process meant soccer board could vade some probing questions even if he made sure to apologize for the social media giants worst failures. lots of fake demonstrating in front of the european institutions but inside the parliament not so much the hearing of the facebook c.e.o. was supposed to take place behind closed doors so that gave some the impression that the privacy of mr zuckerberg was more important than the privacy of facebook users but some e.u. parliamentarians fought back and managed to have the hearing that took place right here in this room live streamed so everyone could see how mark zuckerberg apologized for digital facebook tools causing real world problems once again we haven't done enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well. and that goes for fake news foreign

i mean, most firms will need to have, or appoint, a data protection officer. right. have around how to be compliant with gdpr, especially given those 20 million euro fines. take a look at this. although gdpr itself will help companies defend themselves, it also brings out a new possible way of attacking them by basically forcing them to pay a ransom fee. so, for example, if i broke into a company, stole some information from them, i've got a couple of choices then — i could try and sell it online for money, or i could go back to that company and say, "look, unless you give me £100,000, i'm gonna publish this information on the internet and force you to pay a fine for your gdpr non—regulation." that's an awful thought! yeah. yeah, it is, isn't it? i mean, there are a lot of good players but also a lot of bad players out there looking at this new regulation and seeing how it's gonna hit. now that's where we'll have to leave it for the short cut of click. there's much more on gdpr in the full—length version of the programme, which you can see on iplayer right now. you c

we do not have to be data protection experts jabber data protected.d by gdpr block access for europeans. an alternative take would be the la times is doing this so extensively that they cannot comply with privacy laws, they've had two is to prepare, but they shown is a very lazy solution. you talk about empowerment and think that that is that the heart of this, people being empowered. how are we going to see that in the coming weeks and months and years was yellow we've just come out of a scandal that showed how companies like facebook and analytic over more exploiting peoples data, this helps organisations, ecosystem at the moment, and it's also good for people who have very powerful rights that allow you to protect yourselves from being exploited by such companies. one thing that does puzzle me personally is that i have been flooded with e—mails to unsubscribe from things, and try to persuade me to carry on with a particular one. why have i and so many other people have been receiving all those e—mails? many other people have been receiving all thos