I am actually sick of the attempts to cash-in the needs of professionals that want to get a proper DPO qualification, by proposing useless “seminars” or “masters” or “crash courses” that promise to turn people that never approached the data protection issues before into skilled DPOs. This is exploitation, like promising that in fifteen days you can be turned from a desk geek into somebody able to beat Mike Tyson in his primes. Continue reading “What it takes to become an effective DPO”
The “certified” DPO and how to spot a useless one
With the approaching of May 25, 2018, the number of (self-professed) “Certified DPOs” is growing at an astonishing pace.
Many of the companies that fall within the GDPR’s scope must to include in its ranks this role but HR or Legal department are in the completely in the dark when it comes to set forth the criteria to evaluate a candidate’s fitness for the job.
“Certifications” or “Privacy Master Degree” ownership are a few ways the candidates try to lure a company into hiring them. Continue reading “The “certified” DPO and how to spot a useless one”
Apple’s High Sierra, Adobe and Your Hidden Stakeholder – long
After – and I state it again – after the launch of High Sierra, the “new”, i.e. mostly incompatible, Apple operating system, Adobe warns its customers that
has discovered the compatibility issues listed below when running Illustrator CC 2017.1 and earlier on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra). Unexpected behavior may result due to compatibility issues with graphics processing units (GPU) or Apple File System (APFS).
Continue reading “Apple’s High Sierra, Adobe and Your Hidden Stakeholder – long”
Apple to move its calves into another barn
A “new” i.e. “incompatible” feature on your brand new Macs: no more physical ESC key on the keyboard, to prevent your perfectly running software to do so. ?Adieu! ?VI!
A “new” i.e. “incompatible” power socket for your MacBook Pro, to force you to discharge your old charger.
A “new” i.e. “incompatible” file system on your Macs (APFS), to make your system interacting haphazardly with your files. 1
A “new” i.e. “incompatible” operating system (High Sierra) to not work properly with your currently running software (from Office, to Indesign and Illustrator.)
A “new” – guess what? yes, “incompatible” – HTML 5 API to allow DRMs enforced at user-agent level 2
There are now enough calves in the valley, and the time is right to move them to another barn, where they can stay calm and dumb, with nobody but the rancheros from Cupertino telling them what, how and when to do.
They finally got it.
The Flaws of the High Tech Advertising (or Why the Iphone X won’t never turn you into a better photographer)
The advertising strategy of the next technological gimmick is always based on what this gimmick can do and not what you can do with the gimmick.
This might sound counterintuitive, because if we look at the way the toys of the moment are presented to the prospect customers, the ads are focused on the opposite approach. Look at these landscape gorgeous pictures, incredible slow motion kids’ soccer match video or stunning portraits displayed everywhere on the web: isn’t all that an evidence that the communication is user-directed?
Well, let’s scratch the surface. Continue reading “The Flaws of the High Tech Advertising (or Why the Iphone X won’t never turn you into a better photographer)”