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Does the GDPR Enhance Consumers’ Control over Personal Data? An Analysis from a Behavioural Perspective | SpringerLink

#webdev #work #gdpr #science #data #articles #psychology #behaviour | Because of increased technological complexities and multiple data-exploiting business practices, it is hard for consumers to gain control over their own personal data. Therefore, individual control over personal data has become an important subject in European privacy law. Compared to its predecessor, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) addresses the need for more individual control over personal data more explicitly. With the introduction of several new principles that seem to empower individuals in gaining more control over their data, its changes relative to its predecessors are substantial. It appears, however, that, to increase individual control, data protection law relies on certain assumptions about human decision making. In this work, we challenge these assumptions and describe the actual mechanisms of human decision making in a personal data context. Further, we analyse the extent to which new provisions in the GDPR effectively enhance individual control through a behavioural lens. To guide our analysis, we identify three stages of data processing in the data economy: (1) the information receiving stage, (2) the approval and primary use stage, and (3) the secondary use (reuse) stage. For each stage, we identify the pitfalls of human decision-making that typically emerge and form a threat to individual control. Further, we discuss how the GDPR addresses these threats by means of several legal provisions. Finally, keeping in mind the pitfalls in human decision-making, we assess how effective the new legal provisions are in enhancing individual control. We end by concluding that these legal instruments seem to have made a step towards more individual control, but some threats to individual control remain entrenched in the GDPR.

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Self-Host Your Static Assets – CSS Wizardry – Web Performance Optimisation

#webdev #webdesign #articles #english #hints #assets #cdn | Why is it so much better to self-host your static assets?

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Timeless Web Dev Articles

#webdev #articles | Pavithra Kodmad asked people for recommendations on what they thought were some of the most timeless articles about web development that have changed

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How To Protect Your Users With The Privacy By Design Framework — Smashing Magazine

#webdev #articles #privacy #english #hints | In these politically uncertain times, developers can help to **defend their users’ personal privacy** by adopting the _Privacy by Design (PbD)_ framework. These common-sense steps will become a requirement under the EU's imminent data protection overhaul, but the benefits of the framework go far beyond legal compliance. Let’s give credit where credit is due. The global political upheaval of the past 12 months has done more to get developers thinking about privacy, surveillance and **defensive user protection** than ever before. The risks and threats to ourselves, and to our users, are no longer theoretical; they are real, they are everyday, and they are frightening.

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Solved by Flexbox — Cleaner, hack-free CSS

#webdev #articles #hints #flexbox | A showcase of problems once hard or impossible to solve with CSS alone, now made trivially easy with Flexbox.

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