Joly MacFie on Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:02:01 +0100 (CET)


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<nettime> WEBCAST TODAY: Digital Rights for Citizens – Free Online Course Launch #digirights


Many Europeans know about the GDPR, but not so many know how to assert their rights under the regulation. ISOC Finland and Open Knowledge Finland mean to fix that. This is a restream of their launch event on Tuesday Also check out the MyData declaration.


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 The Digital Rights for Citizens online course was launched on January 15th 2019 and was live-streamed from Eurooppasali in Helsinki, Finland. Today, Thursday January 17 2019, at 14:00 UTC (9am ET)an edited version will be restreamed.

VIEW THE LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/digirights

During the course, hosted by Open Knowledge Finland (OKF), and funded by the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Finnish Foreign Ministry, students will learn about their new digital rights after the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came in to force on the 25th of May 2018, answering such questions as
– How can I stop irrelevant telemarketing?
– Why and how do companies use my Loyalty Card data?
– How can I find information on how organizations use my data?
– What benefits could I receive if I was able to receive my data?
– What would a society look like where I would be able to transfer MyData as needed?

Join us and learn concrete steps to make GDPR work for you! Know your rights and how to use them!

4 hosted webinars will be held on Tuesdays 22nd Jan29th Jan5th Feb and 12th Feb. Language will be both in English and in Finnish.

ENROLL FOR THE COURSE HERE: https://digirights.info/enroll-now/

INTRODUCTION
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/03/dawn-new-digital-rights-finnish-citizens/

OKP FINLAND MYDATA PROJECT
https://mydata.org/

FACEBOOK EVENThttps://www.facebook.com/events/2212888502311686/

TWITTER: #digirights https://bit.ly/digirights

Permalink
https://isoc.live/10841/





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