Privacy is not worth selling for a penny of convenience
“The privacy of individuals means limiting government or corporate power: the more someone knows about you, the more power they have over you, therefore it is not always worth selling it for a penny of apparent or real convenience,” pointed out dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič in an interview with Finance Manager.
In the article, which is available here in slovene language, she spoke about data analytics of big data performed by streaming service providers as is, for example, Netflix, on complaints against infringements of the right of access under Article 15 of the GDPR against streaming service providers, as well as on solutions that would ensure the protection of the privacy of individuals.
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Communia, a non-governmental organisation that advocates for policies that expand the public domain and increase access to and reuse of culture and knowledge, issued twenty new copyright policy recommendations for the next decade.
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