The more I read and understand about #GDPR, the more I feel it was drafted by lawyers whose concept of "data" is akin to "human tissue samples" - discrete, attributable to a single individual, identifiable, not prone to proliferate…
And they've never heard of Henrietta Lacks.
And they've never heard of Henrietta Lacks.
Before someone reads Wikipedia and plays the "Neither Henrietta Lacks nor her family gave her physicians permission to harvest her cells"—card, yes, but that's not what I am getting at.
What I am saying is that I sense a clash of models: tidy-minded political people who believe that data moves around like a <thing> in a bottle… rather than what actually happens, of leaving copies of itself behind, whenever it starts moving.
