#91 Re: WCG team position
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:21 pm
Still no sign of WCG joining the fold.
I've got to say that all of this is so unnecessary.
The eugdpr website has this definition:
What constitutes personal data?
The GDPR applies to ‘personal data’ meaning any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier. This definition provides for a wide range of personal identifiers to constitute personal data, including name, identification number, location data or online identifier, reflecting changes in technology and the way organisations collect information about people.
No data that WCG, or indeed TSBT, holds about me directly or indirectly identifies me as a person other than my email address which isn't visible on either website & certainly is not exported by WCG. End of problem.
The trying to be more catholic than the Pope metaphor seems very apposite.
I do worry that BOINC has just broken itself by overreacting to this regulation which in reality isn't any more onerous than the old Data Protection Act, which worked because everyone applied a sense of proportion and went with the spirit of the law rather than going for a ridiculously arse-covering worst-case scenario interpretation of the letter of the Act.
I've got to say that all of this is so unnecessary.
The eugdpr website has this definition:
What constitutes personal data?
The GDPR applies to ‘personal data’ meaning any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier. This definition provides for a wide range of personal identifiers to constitute personal data, including name, identification number, location data or online identifier, reflecting changes in technology and the way organisations collect information about people.
No data that WCG, or indeed TSBT, holds about me directly or indirectly identifies me as a person other than my email address which isn't visible on either website & certainly is not exported by WCG. End of problem.
The trying to be more catholic than the Pope metaphor seems very apposite.
I do worry that BOINC has just broken itself by overreacting to this regulation which in reality isn't any more onerous than the old Data Protection Act, which worked because everyone applied a sense of proportion and went with the spirit of the law rather than going for a ridiculously arse-covering worst-case scenario interpretation of the letter of the Act.