GDPR

Privacy Legislation coming into effect on May 25th 2018 from the European Union.

Main issues:

• Right to access and be informed
• Right to rectification
• Right to be forgotten
• Right to data portability
• Right to restrict / object processing
• Breach notification

What others do

Position papers

• OSM: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:GDPR_Position_Paper.pdf
• EasyRedmine: https://www.easyredmine.com/contacts/gdpr-compliance

Plugins, modules or extensions to the core software

• CiviCRM and GDPR (by Veda Consulting) Docs and GitHub repo for the extension: https://github.com/veda-consulting/uk.co.vedaconsulting.gdpr Note: this extension includes 'anonymizer' functionality
• Wordpress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/gdpr/
• Joomla!: https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/gdpr/

Adopt core software

• EasyRedmine

GDPR and MediaWiki

• Wikia has developed an extension to "Download Your Data"
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194901
• https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gdpr
• Marcus Glaser's presentation at Wikimedia Hackathon - Barcelona 2018/05/19
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTIpr4Ybcg

Links

• GDPR legislation
• Useful compliation of hotspots
• Discussion on MW.org

Keep in mind that they run on REL 1_19, so it will need to be ported to a recent release