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The EU's Online Privacy Rules, Explained

This photograph taken on Sept. 28, 2017, shows a smartphone being operated in front of logos for Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, in Hédé-Bazouges, western France. (Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images)
This photograph taken on Sept. 28, 2017, shows a smartphone being operated in front of logos for Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, in Hédé-Bazouges, western France. (Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images)

Starting May 25, the European Union will implement a new rule called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will drastically tighten online privacy laws across the Atlantic for companies like Facebook and Google.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Recode’s Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) about the laws, as well as the latest in the uproar after revelations that Cambridge Analytica improperly harvested data from 50 million Facebook users.

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