Happy GDPR! Soon if not now
May. 24th, 2018 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI’m a little hazy on the easternmost time zones for the EU, but it seems like if it isn’t already May 25 somewhere in the EU, it will be fairly soon.
This is a pretty simple blog. It runs on Dreamwidth. I don’t do anything with this blog beyond the most vanilla aspects of Dreamwidth. I don’t collect email addresses, for example. I do post my thoughts, including about people I know, and people I read about or watch on TV and so forth. My regular readers know that I routinely refer to people I know by a first initial, and some of these persons who I refer to by a first initial are EU citizens. I hope that if you are a friend or family member who is an EU citizen and if you are in any way unhappy with my blog posts referring to you by a first initial, you will contact me, before you contact your local regulator.
I _think_, but am not _certain_, that any references to EU citizens or residents which are not only by initial, but rather by name or other identifiable characteristics, it is in the context of publicly available information in the news. I do recognize that this may still be a subject of EU law. Fingers crossed I’m such small potatoes that no one will ever care.
And that’s about all I have to say about this particular blog’s compliance — or otherwise — with GDPR. Hopefully.
This is a pretty simple blog. It runs on Dreamwidth. I don’t do anything with this blog beyond the most vanilla aspects of Dreamwidth. I don’t collect email addresses, for example. I do post my thoughts, including about people I know, and people I read about or watch on TV and so forth. My regular readers know that I routinely refer to people I know by a first initial, and some of these persons who I refer to by a first initial are EU citizens. I hope that if you are a friend or family member who is an EU citizen and if you are in any way unhappy with my blog posts referring to you by a first initial, you will contact me, before you contact your local regulator.
I _think_, but am not _certain_, that any references to EU citizens or residents which are not only by initial, but rather by name or other identifiable characteristics, it is in the context of publicly available information in the news. I do recognize that this may still be a subject of EU law. Fingers crossed I’m such small potatoes that no one will ever care.
And that’s about all I have to say about this particular blog’s compliance — or otherwise — with GDPR. Hopefully.