[Note: For this blog I’m going to focus on US-based ‘content’ providers (e.g. newspapers) as these folks seem to be the ones hit particularly hard by EU legislation.]

From May 25th 2018, we have all likely encountered at least one of these notices when browsing US-based websites:

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After 6 years of faffing around, my Core Concept Security website is finally up and running! Click (https://coreconceptsecurity.com).

Core Concept Security

It’s very basic, so I should be grateful for your comments / suggestions on improvement.

Many thanks,

David

The title should actually be more in question form; Did you know that there’s even a difference between being erased and being forgotten?

Article 17 of the GDPR is “Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)“, which suggests they are the same thing. They are not [quite], and I think the only reason the right to be forgotten was added in brackets is because everyone was already calling it that. But it’s just not accurate …enough.

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My original title was “Data Security vs Data Protection[…]”, but an unfortunate number of people see these as pretty much the same thing, even interchangeable. Then I chose Cybersecurity instead of Data Security but that doesn’t cover all forms/formats of personal data, so I finally had to settle on Information Security.

As for Data Protection, it’s not, in and of itself Privacy, and so on…

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