Is genetic genealogy’s reaction to GDPR worse than GDPR?

Question

I believe so.  Please read:

https://iconewsblog.org.uk/2017/08/09/gdpr-sorting-the-fact-from-the-fiction/

Comments

Yes; definitely.

Peter managed to elicit from me the most sententious comment I will ever write.  ;-)

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Peter, I almost certainly would agree with you, but that link is now dead.  Bazaarly, even a search on the site for 'gdpr' turns up nothing!  Do you possibly have another link?  Or could you briefly summarize?

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All her blogs were deleted :-(   But it is in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180504011543/https://iconewsblog.org.uk/2017/08/09/gdpr-sorting-the-fact-from-the-fiction/

 

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Okay; that's just a tad creepy. I believe Elizabeth Denham is still the UK's Information Commissioner. Her blog posts were there two days ago. I wonder why they've been removed on either GDPR Eve or GDPR Day? Weird.

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Conspiracy time: maybe they don't want the blog posts used against them when they ~do~ start fining dentists and gardeners.

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Debbie Kennett brought this one to my attention. It's an interesting take on GDPR from the FreeUKGenealogy organization...and WikiTree is mentioned front and center: https://www.freeukgenealogy.org.uk/news/2018/05/22/gdpr.

BTW, I've decided that either Debbie has a clone working with her (a perk of University DNA research?), or she has a paid assistant constantly monitoring genetic genealogy on the Net. I try to stay informed, but I have never, never scooped Debbie on any bit of news. Well, unless it pertains only to my own websites....  ;-)

Answer 1

Yes!  . . . and the page has disappeared from the site but is still (at the time of this writing) in the cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TL9vi-5h7PEJ:https://iconewsblog.org.uk/2017/08/09/gdpr-sorting-the-fact-from-the-fiction/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Comments

Yes!!!