Selections from the top news items this week in the world of identity and application security. IDENTITY + THE CLOUD Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy? From The New Yorker: The reason you’ve been receiving a steady stream of privacy-policy updates from online services, some of which you may have forgotten you ever subscribed to, is that the European Union just enacted the General Data Protection Regulation, which gives users greater control over the information that online companies collect about them. Since the Internet is a global medium, many companies now need to adhere to the E.U. regulation. 4 ways businesses and customers can build digital trust (while we wait for a blockchain solution) From The Next Web: No one can accurately predict the future of digital ID, but some governments are moving towards digital forms of verification. The Estonian government, for example, supports e-identity where.