Ahead of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, a pair of New York Times employees sought out information about themselves from Amazon, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and a marketing analytics company. When asking for information from Amazon and the analytics company, Prashant S. Rao, who lives in London, was able to get far more detailed information about himself than Natasha Singer, who lives in New York. Rao was able to see information such as a reservation he made at a London restaurant, while Singer was only able to see an article she read on Forbes. For Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the two were able to get some information, but when they tried to get data such as their web browsing history, they were unsuccessful. (Registration may be required to access this story.) 
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