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Thread: EU GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation effective May 25, 2018 |
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Former Member
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WCG is subject to the GDPR regulations. We will be rolling out a series of updates next week with the following: 1) The ability to delete your account. 2) The ability to not have your account shown on the stats pages or be exported in the BOINC stats exports 3) Limit access to member information via either the JSON/XML api's or via the BOINC stats exports only to those who have agreed to delete all information about our users who have deleted their information 4) Updated privacy policy There is a lot in the GDPR regulation and it is a game changer in how personal information is viewed and treated. As a software developer, the transition has had some major challenges but as an individual I really like where this is going with regards to individual privacy rights. Thanks for your information and actions and thanks for your personal emphasized input... privacy IS important. The USA will maybe take some learning from this, to include put some thumbscrews on the biggest violators such as Google and in the big news Facebook and their Cambridge Analitica debacle. |
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Former Member
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My inbox is brimming with these messages - this one from Transparency International Denmark:
----------------------------------------You may have heard about the new General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), that comes into effect May 25, 2018. To help comply with GDPR consent requirements, we need to confirm that you would like to receive content from us. We hope that our content is useful to you. If you'd like to continue hearing from us, please update your subscription settings. How should the above protect me and from what? - I'm afraid I think the leak from Ashley Madison was a bigger problem than me receiving e-mails I asked for myself ....  Sorry  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 17, 2018 6:50:50 PM] |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3010 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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little mermaid, it's not just the 'reconfirmation' that GDPR is all about - it's ensuring that the data that these numerous companies hold about you, is safe, secure and managed in a professional manner (i.e., that your data isn't sold on to other third parties without your say-so and to try and prevent data leaks - such as from Ashley Madison).
----------------------------------------As Kevin inferred (above), there's a whole lot more about GDPR than people realise - and it's about updating the Data Protection laws for the 21st century (e.g., many countries DP laws, were developed before Facebook et al came into being).  |
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Former Member
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gb009761, thank you for trying to make sense of a bureaucratic Flying Dutchman to me.
I'm terribly biased, and I shouldn't have posted in this thread in the first place. I think that the point of no return was passed a long time ago, and that businesses like TonyEllis's, IBM, and who have you should be allowed to act responsibly on their own accord, and if they hurt us, really hurt us, we should try them in court. We - at least I - don't need EU babysitting us/me! Personally, I never asked them to, and by the way, I never asked them to become a 'Union' either, just to remain a common market. So get out of my fantastic hairdo, please. I see it as powermongering and grandstanding, and I wish someone gave them an opposition they could feel. I believe more in IBM and TonyEllis's business than in what the EU dreams up. And if they sell my name to a company who wants to promote say ice picks for mountain climbing - since I'm in Base Camp - then what? Nobody forces me to KLiK their ads. We already have legislation preventing spamming with e-mails we have not asked for ... my problem is rather with the EU ideas than with something that cannot be avoided anyway - and how would they trace and sue for instance TonyEllis's business? And bring him to court? And win their case in Australia? And all of a sudden he's no longer a EU citizen. And how can Margrethe Vestager, the European Commisioner of Competition, hand out fines of an unbelievable magnitude to Apple, Google, and who have you - fines that for instance Ireland is not prepared to cash in on anyway? It's one big pie in the sky - and a very expensive one at that ... Sorry, this was not what this thread was meant for, so I'll try to step back. |
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Bok7575
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Jul 8, 2008 Post Count: 51 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The ability to not have your account shown on the stats pages or be exported in the BOINC stats exports 3) Limit access to member information via either the JSON/XML api's or via the BOINC stats exports only to those who have agreed to delete all information about our users who have deleted their information I've talked with the Einstein@Home folks about this also. For the implementation of the ability to not be in the stats export - Are you defaulting to No or Yes? If it's No, then I expect when this is implemented that immediately the stats exports will be blank and it's then unlikely they would ever get back up to more than 1% of current levels. Given that - is it even worth doing stats exports at all? I'm not sure it would be worth maintaining my stats website any longer. |
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jhindo
Former World Community Grid Admin Joined: Aug 25, 2009 Post Count: 250 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Bok7575, by default, new volunteers will be opted out of the stats exports.
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for your information and actions and thanks for your personal emphasized input... privacy IS important. The USA will maybe take some learning from this, to include put some thumbscrews on the biggest violators such as Google and in the big news Facebook and their Cambridge Analitica debacle. So, why hasn't Cambridge Analitica been called to task?  |
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Former Member
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My inbox is brimming with these messages - this one from Transparency International Denmark: You may have heard about the new General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), that comes into effect May 25, 2018. To help comply with GDPR consent requirements, we need to confirm that you would like to receive content from us. We hope that our content is useful to you. If you'd like to continue hearing from us, please update your subscription settings. How should the above protect me and from what? - I'm afraid I think the leak from Ashley Madison was a bigger problem than me receiving e-mails I asked for myself .... Sorry These e-mails will not protect you from anything. Replying to them is likely to reduce your level of protection, especially if you already set up a specific profile with these companies, or you do not have a business relationship with them already. If you already have a business relationship with a company, then they are allowed to keep your information sufficient to continue that relationship. If you have no relationship, but wish to be spammed by them, then go ahead and reply so that they can legitimately do so and continue to hold your data. What REALLY annoys me is that many of these e-mails use a US click-tracking company, which means that if you click on a link in the e-mail you are confirming to a US company that you exist. But the vast majority of the EU companies FAIL to mention that your PII is being exported outside the EU, and that is against the GDPR rules. GRRRRR!!! |
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Former Member
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Thanks for your information and actions and thanks for your personal emphasized input... privacy IS important. The USA will maybe take some learning from this, to include put some thumbscrews on the biggest violators such as Google and in the big news Facebook and their Cambridge Analitica debacle. So, why hasn't Cambridge Analitica been called to task? They've filed strategic bankruptcy in the UK and the USA and transferred 'the assets' to newly formed Emerdata, another Mercer company. Got a mail with a link to a very long mumbo jumbo legalize from Weather Underground. Unbeknownst to me, they are since 2015 an wholly owned IBM company. Since 2004 a registered member there, the long text summed up to: "We'll continue to sell your data. If you don't like it, then get out". I just did, in full. BTW, I was a paying subscriber! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 21, 2018 5:01:03 PM] |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Got a mail with a link to a very long mumbo jumbo legalize from Weather Underground. Unbeknownst to me, they are since 2015 an wholly owned IBM company. Since 2004 a registered member there, the long text summed up to: "We'll continue to sell your data. If you don't like it, then get out". I just did, in full. BTW, I was a paying subscriber! Well, I learned something new. I did not know Weather Underground was owned by IBM. Interesting. I like to use the site, but I am not a paying member. Thus, I have no profile there. I will still use them, but perhaps in a more judicious fashion, knowing they are willing to sell data. Thanks for the info. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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