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Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control (Spring 2019)

“WTF is GDPR?” by Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch (2018).

The GDPR is a complicated and wide-ranging piece of legislation – this somewhat crassly titled backgrounder explains its most important facets. To what extent do the data protection, data sharing, and consent standards described in the GDPR offer compelling solutions to the problems we’ve discussed in previous weeks? Is the medicine too weak (or too strong)?