Aug 23 – 28, 2019
Europe/Athens timezone

GDPR and ePrivacy: Compliance Nightmares for GNOME and Open-Source Projects?

Aug 25, 2019, 12:30 PM
50m
Technical Privacy and Security

Speaker

Giannis Konstantinidis

Description

While the EU's GDPR and ePrivacy (now undergoing reform) provide people with additional control over their personal data, they do expect organisations to perform significant adjustments to their processes and workflows and to implement particular measures. Most open-source projects, including GNOME, make no exception and are consequently expected to comply with the extensive legal and technical requirements; not to forget software developers, engineers and technologists who are additionally tasked with implementing privacy-enhancing mechanisms.The participants of this session will explore the fundamental requirements of the GDPR and the current ePrivacy Directive and will also discover the important connections between the GDPR and the upcoming ePrivacy Regulation. More importantly, they will be presented with the most frequent Do's and Don'ts of the post-GDPR era. Last but not least, we will highlight and showcase some of the best practices adopted by the GNOME project and the wider community and think about the next steps.

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