Brexit campaigner AggregateIQ challenges UK's first GDPR notice A Canadian data analytics firm on the receiving end of the UK's first-ever violation notice of Europe's new data privacy laws is appealing the claims against it. The GDPR notice was sent by Blighty's Information Commissioner (ICO) against AggregateIQ, an organization linked to the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. The biz …
"Don't act as if they were honest democratic processes - the opposite is true."
They were. As honest as any other democratic process, like the elections in general.
Or do you honestly believe the other side of those campaigns were all totally honest and didn't use backhanded tactics themselves?
Brexit took place on June 23 2016 and GDPR became legally enforceable May 25 2018.
Nope. The decision to start Brexit happened then, Brexit itself won't happen until March 29th 2019. Anyway, since UK consumer and data protection law has always been consistently more strict than EU requirements, and the UK co-operates closely with Canada on this, it seems unlikely that Brexit will change this case.
Besides anyone who thinks their personal data is private on facebook is deluding themselves.
That's certainly true, but doesn't exempt Facebook from havig to follow the laws of the countries it operates in (and EULAs that say otherwise are invalid).
for using my personal information gleaned from other sites to tailor and create Ads on my phone fed from realtime Ad Auction merchants that invite me to book at those hotels I previously looked at on Booking.com from another entirely separate computer.
"We Know where you stayed on holiday Last Summer".
Ad blockers and No-Script or similar want to be your friends you know, why don't you let them.
(And take the time to got through googles opt-out pages, as theres several, and opt out of EVERYTHING you can. Yes this is slightly inconvenient if you use a lot of googly apps, but then you'll just have to decide what you value more. Your privacy or "convenience")
Wasn't there some sort of protection against being prosecuted if there was clear evidence that the law you "broke" was invented *after* you committed your crime?
Or do the (literally) "Get Out Of Jail Free" rules only apply if you are a politician or a Big Business?
There is, however the company were given notice that the law was changing and that to compile with the new law they would need to change how they processed data. They didn't change and thus were charged with breaching the new law
It's is bit like the speed limits on a road changing from 30 mph to 20 mph, you would have seen the new signs going up and if you still drive at 30 mph you will be taken to court.
Wasn't there some sort of protection against being prosecuted if there was clear evidence that the law you "broke" was invented *after* you committed your crime?
Yeah, it's called "not carrying on committing the crime". Tricky to comply with I know, especially when you're only given a couple of years warning it's going to become illegal.
My partner recently received a letter from the Labour Party inviting her to register for a postal vote. She phoned the local office and asked where they got her details - to which they replied the Open Register. She stated that she wasn't on the Open Register but contacted the Council anyway to check and they concurred that she's not on the public register. She's deliberating what to do next. I'm a Party member, but this really gets on my nerves. A key Labour strategy is to push up the numbers of people to vote by post because the higher the turnout - the better Labour do. Why they're not using an up-to-date Open Register is utterly beyond me.
Can't claim to be working for the working classes while spaffing cash at local authorities for updated datasets can they? Sounds a bit middle class and profligate.
You may assume they look at the mailing preference service data too, although I keep getting told what assumptions make me :)
I admit to being ignorant of most political party mechanics but I would suggest this is a local group operating with "volunteers" who really have no idea and are just doing as they are told from higher up.
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