🇬🇧 OSS Shaping the future of privacy

The evolution of legal norms has centered privacy as a core value, becoming more and more relevant to keep up with the features and dynamic of technology. The recent changes brought by the EU’s GDPR have made this even more relevant, as it imposes a uniform set of rulings to be applied in a variety of ecosystems. Also, besides its versatile mechanism of enforcement, it seems that it is becoming the new unofficial standard of the future. The OSS field is well known for its concept of community formed around an OSS project, which contributes to its development as it evolves. This is maybe one of the reasons why a lot of projects have set privacy by default and by design as main ambitions, as it expresses a need of the people to have their data protected. The GDPR is undoubtedly an effective tool to raise awareness about the right to privacy, enforcing data protection principles. However, each field of activity is currently setting up best practices, which eventually will become complem