Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.
They have published their own Guide to GDPR, which I find somewhat better than this one from the European Union.
Visa requirements and document checklists are a tricky subject when it comes to travel and tourism. On one hand, most of this information is public. On the other – it is often hidden deep in government websites, or not available in English, etc.
Visa List is an excellent website with a really easy user interface, which presents all that information and more for 238+ countries.
Excellent work!
“The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request under GDPR” article features an example worst-case scenario (or so) of a Subject Access Request (SAR) under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
On one hand, the example letter is quite extreme. On the other – it’s quite realistic, especially given the (almost) template.
So, who’s ready for this? And who’s laughing now?
Found via the comments to this Slashdot thread, which is also worth a read.
Lately, I feel like I’m behaving very similar to Steve Ballmer, running around screaming “GDPR! GDPR! GDPR!”.
But I find it to be a huge change for anyone around Europe, and I see it coming into play very soon, and most of the people around me are mostly like “GDPR? What’s that?”.
This article does a lot of good explaining how big of a deal it is. And it doesn’t matter whether you support this or totally against it, I think it will be a huge change for everyone all around. In particularly so – technical people implementing the necessary changes.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has recently voted in favor the DRM standard. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been fighting against it, now lost, and resigned from the W3C. Read more:
It is a tragedy that we will be doing that without our friends at the W3C, and with the world believing that the pioneers and creators of the web no longer care about these matters.
Effective today, EFF is resigning from the W3C.
Thank you,
Cory Doctorow
Advisory Committee Representative to the W3C for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Wow! This is big. And bad. Like breaking bad.
DRM will die one day. But it looks like it will take a few more years, court cases, and such to help it go into the ground. We could haven spent all this effort on something much more useful and productive.