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Peter Andreas Thiel (; born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author. He was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 315 on the Forbes 400 in 2017, with a net worth of $2.6 billion. He co-founded PayPal in 1999, and served as chief executive officer until its sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Thiel was born in Frankfurt, and holds German citizenship. He moved with his family to the United States as an infant, and spent a portion of his upbringing in Africa before returning to the United States. He studied philosophy at Stanford University, graduating with a B.A. in 1989. He then went on to the Stanford Law School, and received his J.D. in 1992. After graduation, he worked as a judicial clerk for Judge James Larry Edmondson, a securities lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell, a speechwriter for former-U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett and as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse prior to founding Thiel Capital in 1996. After the sale of PayPal, he founded Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund. He launched Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company, in 2004 and continues to serve as its chairman as of 2018. His Founders Fund, a venture capital firm, was launched in 2005 along with PayPal partners Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. Earlier, Thiel became Facebook's first outside investor when he acquired a 10.2% stake for $500,000 in August 2004. He sold the majority of his shares in Facebook for over $1 billion in 2012, but remains on the board of directors. He also co-founded Valar Ventures in 2010 and operates as its chairman, co-founded Mithril Capital, of which he is investment committee chair, in 2012, and served as a partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017. Thiel is involved with a variety of philanthropic and political pursuits. Through the Thiel Foundation, he governs the grant-making bodies Breakout Labs and Thiel Fellowship, and funds nonprofit research into artificial intelligence, life extension and seasteading. A co-founder of The Stanford Review, he is a conservative libertarian who is critical of excessive government spending, high debt levels, and foreign wars. He has donated to numerous political figures, and provided financial support to Hulk Hogan in Bollea v. Gawker.

Allmänna dataskyddsförordningen (Europaparlamentets och rådets förordning (EU) nr 2016/679), förkortat GDPR efter engelskans General Data Protection Regulation, är en europeisk förordning med syftet att stärka och harmonisera skyddet för levande, fysiska personer inom Europeiska unionen vid hantering av personuppgifter. Förordningen antogs 27 april 2016 och börjar gälla fullt ut från den 25 maj 2018. Den ersätter då Dataskyddsdirektivet (95/46/EG) från 1995. Till skillnad från ett EU-direktiv kräver en EU-förordning inte att nationella lagar skapas, utan den gäller direkt i alla medlemsstater och ersätter då tidigare nationella bestämmelser. Varje enskild medlemsstat har dock rätten att komplettera förordningen med nationella regler i viss omfattning, till exempel gällande hur ett myndighetsbeslut kan överklagas.I Sverige ersätter dataskyddsförordningen den äldre Personuppgiftslagen (PUL), som reglerade behandling men inte arkivering av personuppgifter.