OpenAI is implementing new privacy controls for ChatGPT. Clearly, in response to #GDPR concerns and threat of blockade/fines. “Conversations started when chat history is disabled won’t be used to train and improve our models”. https://openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chatgpt
MIT Technology Review:
"A Cambridge Analytica-style scandal for AI is coming"
It's all about GDPR which, oddly, the likes of ChatGPT seem not to have thought about. And then there's all the copyright infringement actions coming down the tubes.
In a misguided attempt to demonstrate the benefits of post-Brexit freedoms, the government is setting the UK on a dangerous path to further economic instability and the erosion of fundamental rights.
This appears to be an attempt to take power from citizens and give it to government.
Carol Monaghan MP highlighted our concerns in the debate on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (UK).
Another example of why the #ICO is not fit for purpose:
"Wiza have not complied with their obligations in this instance." ... "despite contacting them on 20 March, 28 March, 11 April and 17 April 2023, I have received no response from the organisation. With this in mind, at this time I am unable to assist you further."
So the ICO's policy is to not do any enforcement when organisations break data protection legislation but refuse to talk to the ICO about it.
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill returned to the UK House of Commons last week.
Stephanie Peacock, Shadow Minister for Media, Data and Digital Infrastructure, raised our concerns about the new government powers to issue instructions and interfere with the Information Commissioner's Office – the independent regulator that plays a key role in the oversight of the government’s use of data.
Tomorrow, René Mahieu will publicly defend his doctoral thesis entitled 'The right of access of personal data in the EU. A Legal and empirical analysis'. In Brussels, and online.
Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that auto-responds to all the #GDPR and similar consent popups with optimal user preferences.
Unlike the extension "I don't care about cookies" which just accepts all cookies, Consent-O-Matic clicks the prompts on your behalf to reject most of the cookies. You can also choose what to accept/reject in the preferences.
Available for Firefox, Chrome and others.
I've been using this on Firefox :firefox: for quite sometime now and it works great!
Here's an interesting medical privacy #GDPR issue.
The NHS have sent me a letter. It is printed / folded in such a way that anyone seeing the unopened envelope can see what it is about. That could be the postie, family, guest, etc.
This is why it is important to test your processes end to end, QA your final product, and try to anticipate what might go wrong.
Oh dear. I've just been informed that collecting the names of every person on the planet for my naughty and nice lists is, and I quote, “a significant and wholly irresponsible breach of #GDPR “.
I'm going to hand out about 8 billion consent forms soon. If you could all get them back to me ASAP that would be appreciated.
I am working on a Data Protection/Privacy Guide for Instance Admins of Masto/Fedi services modeled after the #GDPR, but many of these considerations apply across other jurisdictions' #privacy laws.
I also have a Privacy Notice Template that others can reference:
Have a look, and I welcome any/all comments, good or bad:
Elon Musk is threatening to end his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts.
Want to Delete Your Twitter DMs? Good Luck With That
People in Europe are making GDPR requests to have their private messages erased, but Elon’s team is ignoring them.
The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't suppor
The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them.
The bank refused to spell their customer's name correctly, so the customer raised a GDPR complaint under Article 16.
The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her.
Cue much legal back and forth. The bank argued that they simply couldn't support diacritics due to their technology stack. Here's their argument (in Dutch - my translation follows)
Bank X also explained that the current customer data management application was launched in 1995 and is still running on a US manufactured mainframe system.
This system only supported EBCDIC ("extended binary-coded decimal interchange code"). This is an 8-bit standard for storing letters and punctuation marks, developed in 1963-1964 by IBM for their mainframes and AS/400 computers. The code comes from of the use of punch cards and only contains the following characters…
(Emphasis added.)
EBCDIC is an ancient (and much hated) "standard" which should have been fired into the sun a long time ago. It baffles me that it was still being used in 1995 - let alone today.
Look, I'm not a lawyer (sorry mum!) so I've no idea whether this sort of ruling has any impact outside of this specific case. But, a decade after the seminal Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names essay - we shouldn't tolerate these sorts of flaws.
Unicode - encoded as UTF-8 - just works. Yes, I'm sure there are some edge-cases. But if you can't properly store human names in their native language, you're opening yourself up to a lawsuit.
Hâte de mettre en justice tous les sites et autres compagnies qui ont décidé que le fait que j'ai un accent dans mon nom de famille soit source de bug (avec évidemment un message d'erreur qui n'a rien à voir. Histoire de bien pas comprendre pourquoi ça marche pas) https://t.co/ReIodsI1dh
La France va sortir de l'UE juste pour que leur état-civil et autres administrations puissent continuer à ruiner la vie de quelqu'un parce qu'il a un tilde dans son nom https://t.co/i8FisgEEjD
Does this mean that Z̷̡̧̢̰͓̪͖̭͙̰̣̱̬̹̙̜̪̣̏̿̏̋͑́̒͑́̒̿̇̈̍̇̌͝͝a̵̡̧͍̘̮̤̙̹͙̦̙͙͖͓̥̟̦͔͒̇̊̊̔̓́͒́̌̈́̑͋̏̏̏̚͘͝͠͝l̶͉̯̱͇̭̭̉̉̈́̿͐̽̒̎̽͌̚͜ģ̸̧̛͙̩̹̰̤̱̖̘̻̪̻̮̫̟̙̲͍̰̻͕̗̫̿̆̃́͗̽̊̽̌̔̂͂̈͊̐̈́̈̈́̈̓̆͌̑́̕͜ǫ̶̢̹̥̮̟͍̔̑̔̽ can finally open a bank account? https://t.co/06cTjHxdgx