Decorating the GDPR

Dave Business, Politics

Here is an image documenting the six data protection principles embedded in the GDPR. I made this using powerpoint and got the pictures from flickr and later from Unsplash. This page both established a URL and allows me to document the image credits. In 2023, I reworked the Principles graphic, which has its own URL.

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Linkedin

Dave Cloud, Technology

Linkedin have been changing their look and feel over the last couple of weeks, possibly since the Microsoft purchase. I don’t find all these things good, as ever, here are my notes.

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Open Banking

Dave Business

I was pointed at the Open Banking Project and here are my notes,  it would seem that this is part of the regulators attempts to introduce more market pressures into retail finance.  The ODI page says,

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PC to SMS

Dave Technology

There are still people who only use feature phones or even simpler. How can one use a key board to send messages via SMS. Here are my notes, Twitter, ICQ and SMS gateways at the moment. I marked this as deprecated today. The CMS states that this article was created in March 2017, but the…

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Adding an Event to a Calendar

Dave Technology, Wordpress

I wanted to add a widget to a wordpress web article that allowed readers to add the event to their calendars. I found the site called, “AddEvent“. Fabulous. Proving that doing one thing well is all a web service has to do.

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Privacy & Human Rights at the UN

Dave Politics

In 2013, AFAIK, the United Nations General Assembly, passed the UN Human Rights Commission proposal, The right to privacy in the digital age, the results of this led to the establishment of a Special Rapporteur on Privacy reporting to the OHRC. The SRoP reports once/year to the Human Rights Committee and once each year to…

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Privat

Dave Images

I made this picture from two found on flickr, the flag is by Rock Cohen CC 2008 BY, the Privat slogan is from a picture by Isengardt CC 2010 BY.

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Investigatory Powers Act 2016

Dave Politics

The Investigatory Powers Bill became Law earlier this week. Interestingly the noise and criticism was turned up after the Royal Assent and a Government Site petition opposing the Law reached 1500,000 signatures in a week. I had reason to perform some research on what the Law actually says, and here are my notes and links.

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