As GDPR Turns One, U.S. Companies Ask, "Are We Next?"

[Lisa Schmeiser, Richard Hay]

A significant portion of Internet users through their actions are telling companies that they want to exercise more control over their personal data. Now that even more countries around the world are embracing GDPR style regulations, one big global tech giant in the United States is saying the time has arrived for the U.S. to have a federal law similar to that in Europe and other countries. ALSO: IBM Watson's AI is now available for use in agriculture and weather; AI is growing but so is user distrus; IoT impact is expected to grow significantly in the next six years; Microsoft continues to push their cross platform impact with new services for MacOS; and GitLab now supports Docker Containers on Windows.

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