🌐From Providers to Protectors: The Essential Role of Developers in Data Privacy
Data privacy isn’t just a legal obligation—it’s an ethical responsibility. As developers, agencies, and tech suppliers, it’s on us to protect our clients from the severe consequences of non-compliance, including hefty fines and even criminalization.
🔍 The time has come for us to confront a critical truth: If we don’t prioritize privacy, we’re failing the very clients who rely on us. Compliance with GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, and other laws is not optional—it's a must.
In my latest newsletter, I explore:
- How non-compliance can lead to client criminalization.
- Essential steps to ensure transparency.
- How to minimize data collection, and enforce privacy by design.
- Why embracing first-party data and rejecting invasive trackers isn’t just good practice.
Become a protector of your clients and take responsibility, read the full article and discover actionable strategies that developers and agencies can implement today.
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#DataPrivacy #GDPR #WebDevelopment #EthicalTech #DigitalAgency #Compliance #AesirX #Analytics #CMP #ePrivacyDirective #WordPress #Joomla #Drupal #Woo #OpenSource
Compliance documents don't fail at the policy review.
They fail when a regulator asks for proof, and the organization needs three weeks to assemble spreadsheets.
Audit readiness is an operating condition, not a document.
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#Compliance#AuditReady
🇻🇳 Four or five systems that don't talk to each other. A compliance team connecting dots instead of doing compliance. No single view of where things stand.
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#PDPL#Vietnam
71.8% of Vietnam's top corporate websites are high risk.
We scanned 340 companies. The results will make your compliance team nervous.
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#CorpGov#Vietnam
🔍 We scanned 500 of Vietnam's top company websites.
244 out of 340 were flagged high risk.
Google Analytics. Meta Pixel. YouTube embeds. Google Tag Manager.
Loading before visitors had made any real consent choice.
https://t.co/ASrrgzF4S3
👀 Your client asks which campaign actually drove revenue.
But the report only shows clicks, sessions, & bounce rate.
So the agency team ends up manually stitching together UTM reports, conversion data, & attribution views.
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#AesirX
Big milestone for privacy-first compliance. 🔒
AesirX has launched 3 core features live on @Concordium mainnet.
The gap between “we complied” and “we can prove it” just got a lot smaller.
🔗 https://t.co/DHNlZjSS56
#AesirX#Compliance
Most "AI for compliance" pitches lead with capability.
The harder question, the one that decides whether the technology survives a regulatory inspection, is what the AI is structurally prevented from doing.
🔗 https://t.co/uTJyuczTwJ
#AI#AesirX
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Four compliance problems should be one workflow.
1️⃣ Onboarding
2️⃣ Reviews
3️⃣ Transfers
4️�� Offboarding
🇻🇳 Many Vietnam compliance teams still manage these in disconnected systems.
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#Compliance
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@thorborg@HjalteOlsen Samme her, de vil alle sammen styrer det hele fra borgen - frihed er hverken rød eller blå det er at give folk reel råderet over eget liv, vi er en nation der er baseret på et frihedsbegreb hvor vi afgjorde uenigheder på tinget, men resten besluttede hver især selv.
@thorborg@HjalteOlsen Det er træls at verden stadig hænger fast i højre og venstre skalaen, det burde være centralisme vs. decentralisme der var fokus på. Er tiden ikke løbet fra den forældede opmåling af politisk ståsted og holdninger?
@bcherny@sickdotdev@bcherny my weekly reset this morning, dont relative uncomplex tasks (translation sprints mainly for localization expansion to other markets) all pre-planned in detail, clear after every 5 sprints
@bcherny@sickdotdev Spent weekly 50% in less than a working day on $200 sub. 2nd Saturday in a row this happens . Sure i plan ahead but i must say i don't feel that token limits was raised at all.
@elonmusk Nice to see the no algorithm option, good first step.
Next would be decentralized algorithms with blockchain audit trails and verification and allowing users to pick their own.
I have a hunch local algorithms would be a major win no one has tried yet.
@elonmusk If you truly want to empower people against manipulation then decentralize the algorithm.
I would be happy to send you a conceptual outline free of charge.
Dunping a code base on Github is not a guarantee when no one can see which algorithm is used, it's teater.
Most GRC platforms treat regulation as horizontal.
Banks find the limit of that model the first time the State Bank asks for the four annual internal control reports on its own templates.
🔗 Our take on Vietnam's new Circular 83: https://t.co/T5xrBwIH9o
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Consent records, DSR queue, and data map; managed in three separate systems means manual cross-referencing every time a regulator asks a question.
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#AesirX#Compliance
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You built the site, launched it. The Privacy Policy was done on day one.
Six months later: 3 new plugins, a new marketing tool, 2 scripts nobody remembers adding. The policy? Still the same.
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#WebAgency