New laws to let users check their web data

Internet users will soon be able to challenge any organisations that use their browsing history to collect personal data from them.

In exactly one year’s time, a game-changing European regulation, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), will revolutionise how businesses get, process and store our personal data.

However, results of a new survey show almost two thirds of Irish comp-anies have yet to assess the personal data that they currently hold.