‘Your data privacy was updated’ — Thanks for ignoring it yet again!
https://towardsdatascience.com/your-data-privacy-was-updated-thanks-for-ignoring-it-yet-again-9f6d1d567997
Spammers had some serious competition in the past week. Almost every website and any entity with even a shadow of online presence was busy flooding the net with one of those ‘privacy update’ emails. While our hard-wired response is to click anywhere on the screen that would rid it of this nuisance, that may not be the best thing to do now.
This article is not a primer on GDPR, there are good pieces from NYT and several others on that. This is a reflection on the far-reaching implications of data as a data science practitioner, apart from a few practical things that we can do now, as users.
‘Your data privacy was updated’ — Thanks for ignoring it yet again!
Jun 1, 2018, 12:22am UTC
https://towardsdatascience.com/your-data-privacy-was-updated-thanks-for-ignoring-it-yet-again-9f6d1d567997
> Spammers had some serious competition in the past week. Almost every website and any entity with even a shadow of online presence was busy flooding the net with one of those ‘privacy update’ emails. While our hard-wired response is to click anywhere on the screen that would rid it of this nuisance, that may not be the best thing to do now.
> This article is not a primer on GDPR, there are good pieces from NYT and several others on that. This is a reflection on the far-reaching implications of data as a data science practitioner, apart from a few practical things that we can do now, as users.