This chapter covers:
- Monitoring the process to prove quality
- Handling quality attributes can conflict with one another
- Naming monitoring services intuitively
We the people, at least the European people, have reclaimed our personal space online thanks to the General Data Protection Regulation — more commonly known as GDPR. This important regulation ensures people a new set of digital rights in an age where a whole section of the digital economy is built on the value of personal data.
The regulation gives the data subjects, the European citizens, all kinds of rights; The citizen has the right of access to the personal data about the citizen that is being processed, but not only that also access to information related to the personal data such as how long it will be stored, what the purpose of the processing is.
The citizen also has, amongst other rights, the right to have incomplete data about the citizen be completed, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (and the fines are not something to joke about), and the right to erasure.
The last right I mentioned, the right to erasure, is especially interesting. The regulation also calls the article the right to be forgotten. It gives the data subjects, the citizens, the power to demand that their personal data is erased and no longer processed.