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On the 7th August the UK Government's Department for Digital, Media and Culture (DCMS) published a press release to the effect that they intended to strengthen the UK data protection laws to give individual citizens enhanced rights to determine what happens to their personal data on the Internet. You can read their press release here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-strengthen-uk-data-protection-law To quote from the DCMS GOV.UK Website the thrust of the enhancement to the law is: Public to have greater control over personal data - including right to be forgotten. New right to require social media platforms to delete information on children and adults when asked. What Is Proposed Broadly, this will mean that once the proposal is made law then: The Data Protection Bill will: Make it simpler to withdraw consent for the use of personal data Allow people to ask for their personal data held by companies to be erased Enable parents and guardians to give con...

It's been a while since I last posted here for which, I apologise. Unfortunately, chronic health problems have sapped all of my energy (and will to live) recently and it's been difficult to concentrate upon anything other than the things necessary to get through the day. What to talk about? Given that my brain is particularly dull, maybe I should focus upon that old chestnut Brexit. Oh God! Really? Again? Well, yes; this is the topic that just won't lie down. It is the obsession of the country and certainly the chattering classes du jour and it's likely to be until we finally leave in June 2019. The major issue that I've got with it is that it's taking up the entire effort of the UK Parliament to the exclusion of all else. This includes actually running the country. What's staggeringly obvious is that we came into this process gloriously unprepared. The whole Brexit negotiation is rediculously under-rescourced and it seems that the entire Civil Service h...