Goodbye to the Facebook Era, and Hello To The World of Privacy

Go on, admit it … although your company says it complies with GDPR, it isn’t really fully GDPR compliant! Do you always store personal information away from non-personal information? Do you encrypt all personally identifiable information and related data? Do you only store and process pseudonyms for your users? Is it impossible to resolve pseudonyms to actual identifiers? Does your organisation have detailed procedures in place to report on a data breach?

If the answer to one or more of these is “I don’t quite know”, then read on. Otherwise, you can finish reading this article, as you are a perfect data governor.

To machines, we are just a bunch of 1’s and 0s

Okay, now that we have lost the perfect data governor -who doesn’t exist, by the way — we can read on. Like it or not, we live in a flawed data world. We have allowed the protocols and methods that were developed in the 1980s to grow up and scale across the planet. Unfortunately, this is a world that is fit for machines and has little respect for the privacy of us — humans. For them — machines — we are just a number that needs to be linked to something else, and then make a decision on. Machines often have little regard and care about you, and they are just programmed to complete their tasks. For them…