Legal Tech

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/12170575

The GDPR has some rules that require data controllers to be fair and transparent. EDPB guidelines further clarify in detail what fairness and transparency entails. As far as I can tell, what I am reading strongly implies a need for source code to be released in situations where an application is directly executed by a data subject and the application also processes personal data.

I might expand on this more but I’m looking for information about whether this legal theory has been analyzed or tested. If anyone knows of related court opinions rulings, or even some NGO’s analysis on this topic I would greatly appreciate a reference.

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The esq.social Mastodon instance is down this morning owing to an outage at our cloud provider, I'm working to get things back up and running -- apologies for the inconvenience!

I spent way too long looking for a self-hosted option so that I could embed a very basic database into my law firm website. I settled on Grist. My goal was to compile a list of tagged links that clients or potential clients would come back to my website to access. You can see the results here: https://www.joshualawfirm.com/links/. I'll note that the db is embedded in an iframe and is slow to load because I am self-hosting on an NAS rather than a dedicated server. If this experiment works, I'd likely migrate the db to a faster server.