{"id":4192,"date":"2014-01-28T14:27:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T12:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbrainthefilm.com\/_POLARSTARFILMS2020\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T12:28:42","slug":"international-data-protection-day-today-28th-of-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/international-data-protection-day-today-28th-of-january\/","title":{"rendered":"International Data Protection Day today, 28th of January!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/t\/dghl\/standardsetting\/dataprotection\/data_protection_day_en.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Data Protection Day<\/a>\u00a0was launched by the Council of Europe in 2006 in order to raise awareness amongst citizens about their rights and responsibilities regarding data protection.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4187 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/worldbrainthefilm.com\/_POLARSTARFILMS2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dia-Europeo-Proteccion-de-Datos-350x233.png\" alt=\"Dia Europeo Proteccion de Datos\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dia-Europeo-Proteccion-de-Datos-350x233.png 350w, https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dia-Europeo-Proteccion-de-Datos-250x167.png 250w, https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dia-Europeo-Proteccion-de-Datos-680x453.png 680w, https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dia-Europeo-Proteccion-de-Datos-200x133.png 200w, https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dia-Europeo-Proteccion-de-Datos-500x333.png 500w, https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Dia-Europeo-Proteccion-de-Datos.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/> For this year\u2019s 8th edition of Data Protection Day, the Data Protection Unit is co-organising a side event: \u201c<strong>After Snowden: using law and technology to counter snooping<\/strong>\u201d to coincide on 28 January. The \u201cHandbook on European data protection law\u201d prepared in cooperation with the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (<a href=\"http:\/\/fra.europa.eu\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRA<\/a>) and the European Court of Human Rights will also be launched on this day on the Council of Europe\u2019s websites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbrainthefilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google and the World Brain<\/a>\u201d Polar Star Films\u2019 latest documentary directly addresses issues of data mining and unauthorized data collection by large internet companies. Key thinkers and authors such as Jaron Lanier and Evgeny Morozov expose the dilemma we all face when going online. &#8220;Whether large internet companies are making our lives easier or gaining power over us presents a false binary&#8221; says Evgeny Morozov when considering the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9sqk3N_Ae3U&amp;list=PLAMmY3P99fx-VxY69zHiIoEtRR79pw7kU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Glass Project<\/a>\u00a0in the film.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy a DVD of \u201cGoogle and the World Brain\u201d from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.polarstarfilms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polar Star Films shop<\/a>\u00a0or watch it online in Spain at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmin.es\/pelicula\/google-y-el-cerebro-mundial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Filmin<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.400films.com\/pelicula\/google-and-world-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">400Films<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmotech.com\/V2\/ES\/FX_FichaPelicula.asp?Id=11217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Filmotech<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plus.es\/programacion\/google-y-el-cerebro-mundial\/E1119021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yomvi<\/a>, and find out more about this story and the dangers of access to information on the Internet. As the director Ben Lewis said about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O46oyh0DZeo&amp;list=PLAMmY3P99fx9VBhvr6mnEpqwFhUv3Xknr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free stuff on the net<\/a>: \u201cWhen something is free, it usually means that somebody is not getting paid for their work or somebody is selling your user data.\u201d Should we be worried?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Data Protection Day\u00a0was launched by the Council of Europe in 2006 in order to raise awareness amongst citizens about their rights and responsibilities regarding data protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":4187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}