News

Aggregated blog posts from the community (including ourselves)

Tick, tick, tick. it’s here … GDPR!

25 May 2018 by Dean Landsman

May 25th GDPR DAY! It’s here, today is the day. After a ticking clock, the day has arrived. May 25th – the GDPR has gone from discussion and preparation to reality. Or has it? With today being a Friday, and Monday being a bank holiday across most of Europe, the real impact won’t set in […]

PDEC’s GDPR Series # 4 – Guest Post from Iain Henderson

10 May 2018 by Dean Landsman

NOTE FROM DEAN: Our GDPR countdown series continues. This is a guest post from Iain Henderson. A member of PDEC since its inception, I’ve known Iain from the beginnings of Project VRM, where he and I were charter members and we both served on the Steering Committee. Iain’s quickie bio reads as follows: Father, data geek, […]

Countdown to GDPR: A pre-GDPR Object Lesson in France?

1 May 2018 by Dean Landsman

GDPR: CNIL Warns Direct Energie about Personal Data Location: France Date: March 2018 – 8 weeks ahead of May 25th On the 27th of March this year the French Data Protection Authority CNIL announced that it had issued a formal notice to DIRECT ENERGIE, Société, for its failure to obtain customer consent to collect customers’ […]

Personal Data: Tim Berners-Lee’s Worries & the GDPR

17 March 2017 by Dean Landsman

On the occasion of the 28th birthday (some might prefer anniversary) of Tim Berners-Lee submitting his proposal to CERN for what would become the World Wide Web, he wrote an open letter on how the web has evolved and what must be done to fulfill his vision of an equalizing platform that would benefit all of […]