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With the tough data protection law to come into effect in early 2018, how are data companies planning to deal with collection of data?

Further, is this law concerned only with third-party data collectors, or does it affect first-party data collection as well?

For example: As a startup, it is recommended to collect data. How does GDPR affect this data collection analytics aspect even if you don't use third party tools, but develop your own ?

What resources are available to get into these two and related topics?

Would be also better if there are papers/books that introduces to these concepts (and toy implementation)?

I am on my final year of my Master's studies, and I want to intern as an industry researcher in CS-related field. I currently take Web Science where I do network analysis, and also have a degree in Sociology. I also have been working as a web-developer, and currently doing work student job as a web-analytics implementer (nothing fancy).

I tried looking into the few big names (who have international research labs) as I am based in Germany. I applied to Microsoft; Google's intership is closed for this year.

I place where I think I can contribute and learn more would be a company with lots of social data such as FaceBook, Twitter, however, to my suprise, Facebook doesn't seem to have internship projects with social science and computer science background. Maybe a company with a core marketing front?

I wanted to ask how did the HN community find their way into industry research internships or positions? In Europe? In USA?

Where should I start looking it? Are there specific job boards for such kind of positions? Any advice would be super super helpful.