<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:13 PM<br>Subject: The EU GDPR and how it can enable Platform Cooperativism ?<br>To: <a href="mailto:platformcoop-discuss@lists.riseup.net">platformcoop-discuss@lists.riseup.net</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">May 2018, will our platforms be ready to make it easier to re-use our google and facebook graph data ( or any existing platform where we have data ), to generate value amongst ourselves by migrating such data onto our own platforms ? <br><br><a href="https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21721634-how-it-shaping-up-data-giving-rise-new-economy" target="_blank">https://www.economist.com/<wbr>news/briefing/21721634-how-it-<wbr>shaping-up-data-giving-rise-<wbr>new-economy</a><br><br><font size="2"><i>Mandatory data sharing is not unheard of: Germany requires insurers 
jointly to maintain a set of statistics, including on car accidents, 
which smaller firms would not be able to compile on their own. The 
European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which 
will start to apply in May 2018, <b>requires online services to make it 
easy for customers to transfer their information to other providers and 
even competitors.</b><br><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>General_Data_Protection_<wbr>Regulation</a> <br><br></i></font><br><font size="2"><i>The <b>General Data Protection Regulation</b> (<b>GDPR</b>) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)" title="Regulation (European Union)" target="_blank">regulation</a> by which the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament" target="_blank">European Parliament</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union" title="Council of the European Union" target="_blank">Council of the European Union</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission" target="_blank">European Commission</a> intend to strengthen and unify <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_protection" class="m_3993225373302630657gmail-mw-redirect" title="Data protection" target="_blank">data protection</a> for all individuals within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union" target="_blank">European Union</a>
 (EU). It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The
 GDPR aims primarily to give control back to citizens and residents over
 their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_business" title="International business" target="_blank">international business</a> by unifying the regulation within the EU.<sup id="m_3993225373302630657gmail-cite_ref-1" class="m_3993225373302630657gmail-reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[1]</a></sup> When the GDPR takes effect, it will replace the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_95/46/EC" class="m_3993225373302630657gmail-mw-redirect" title="Directive 95/46/EC" target="_blank">data protection directive (officially Directive 95/46/EC)</a><sup id="m_3993225373302630657gmail-cite_ref-2" class="m_3993225373302630657gmail-reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[2]</a></sup>
 of 1995. The regulation was adopted on 27 April 2016. It becomes 
enforceable from 25 May 2018 after a two-year transition period and, 
unlike a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_(European_Union)" title="Directive (European Union)" target="_blank">directive</a>, it does not require national governments to pass any enabling legislation, and is thus directly binding and applicable.<br><br></i></font><br><a href="https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/gdpr_risk_to_the_duopoly/" target="_blank">https://pagefair.com/blog/<wbr>2017/gdpr_risk_to_the_duopoly/</a><br></div>
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