Most EU Consumers Would Exercise GDPR Rights If They Knew About Them: Pega Survey
The year is young, but I think there’s been a noticeable drop-off in news about artificial intelligence. The replacement topic seems to be scare stories about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the upcoming European Union restrictions on use of consumer data. For example, this survey from Pegasystems found 79% of consumers don’t know about GDPR but 82% said they’d exercise their new rights once they were told about them. Almost half said they’d tell companies to erase their data if they learned it were being sold or shared – vastly more than for robo calls, poor targeting, or unwanted marketing.