Are you annoyed by GDPR? Frances Haugen says it protected your data anyway.
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The EU's General Data Protection Regulation may be somewhat annoying to the average consumer, but for social media companies it was a wake-up call about the huge amount of private data they'd accumulated, says Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.
And that's a slippery slope for the likes of Facebook or Google.
"One of the things that you get as part of GDPR is the right to request any data that a company has on you," Haugen tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.
For companies, she says, they were suddenly being asked to disclose just how much stuff they had on you.
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