{"id":1785659,"date":"2018-05-25T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785659"},"modified":"2018-05-25T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T19:04:15","slug":"oh-look-another-privacy-policy-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/oh-look-another-privacy-policy-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Look, Another Privacy Policy Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

So The Map Room<\/strong> has had a privacy policy (of sorts) for years, but since all the cool kids have been updating theirs in preparation for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation<\/em><\/a>, I’ve gone and done the same. This policy<\/a>, posted on my personal website, will apply to all the websites I own and operate: since they’re all one-person operations, and I’m the person in every case, it didn’t make sense to be repetitive. Also, said\u00a0operations are likely too small, too inconsequential and too uncontroversial to invite scrutiny from European regulators, and anyway at the moment I don’t hold any personal data unless you comment or contact me via a web form. It seems politic to spell that out in detail, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So The Map Room has had a privacy policy (of sorts) for years, but since all the cool kids have been updating theirs in preparation for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, I’ve gone… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1213,1214,646],"class_list":["post-1785659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-housekeeping","tag-gdpr","tag-personal-data","tag-privacy","post_format-post-format-status"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1784887,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/non-anonymized-strava-user-data-is-accessible\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785659,"position":0},"title":"Non-Anonymized Strava User Data Is Accessible","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 January 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"More on the privacy issues regarding Strava's global heat map and its customer data. 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