net.wars: Principle failure

by Wendy M Grossman | posted on 27 January 2012 in News

The right to access, correct, and delete personal information held about you and the right to bar data collected for one purpose from being reused for another are basic principles of the data protection laws that have been the norm in Europe since the EU adopted the Privacy Directive in 1995. This is the Privacy Directive that is currently being updated; the European Commission's proposals seem, inevitably, to please no one. Businesses are already complaining compliance will be unworkable or too expensive (hey, fines of up to 2 percent of global income!). I'm not sure consumers should be all that happy either; I'd rather have the right to be anonymous than to be forgotten (which I believe will prove technically unworkable), and the jurisdiction for legal disputes with a company to be set to my country rather than theirs. Much debate lies ahead.[more...]


net.wars: Camping out

by Wendy M Grossman | posted on 21 January 2012 in News

"Why hasn't the marvelous happened yet?" The speaker – at one of today's "unconference" sessions at this year's UK Govcamp – was complaining that with 13,000-odd data sets up on his organization's site there ought to be, you know, results.[more...]


net.wars: Pot pourri

by Wendy M Grossman | posted on 13 January 2012 in News

You have to think that 2012 so far has been orchestrated by someone with a truly strange sense of humor. To wit:[more...]


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