scholarly journals #Healthy: smart digital food safety and nutrition communication strategies—a critical commentary

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie L. Schiro ◽  
Liran Christine Shan ◽  
Mimi Tatlow-Golden ◽  
Chenguang Li ◽  
Patrick Wall
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Digital Communications ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
General Data ◽  
Nutrition Communication

Abstract This paper explores how food safety and nutrition organisations can harness the power of search engines, games, apps, social media, and digital analytics tools to craft broad-reaching and engaging digital communications. We start with search engines, showing how organisations can identify popular food safety and nutrition queries, facilitating the creation of timely and in-demand content. To ensure this content is discoverable by search engines, we cover several non-technical aspects of search engine optimisation (SEO). We next explore the potential of games, apps, social media, and going viral for reaching and engaging the public, and how digital data-based tools can be used to optimise communications. Throughout, we draw on examples not only from Europe and North America, but also China. While we are enthusiastic about the benefits of digital communications, we recognise that they are not without their drawbacks and challenges. To help organisations evaluate whether a given digital approach is appropriate for their objectives, we end each section with a discussion of limitations. We conclude with a discussion of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the practical, philosophical, and policy challenges associated with communicating food safety and nutrition information digitally.

Correcting Misperceptions About Genetically Modified Food on Social Media: Examining the Impact of Experts, Social Media Heuristics, and the Gateway Belief Model

2020 ◽  
pp. 107554702098137
Author(s):  
Leticia Bode ◽  
Emily K. Vraga ◽  
Melissa Tully
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Genetically Modified Food ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Consensus ◽  
Gm Food ◽  
Belief Model ◽  
The Impact

We experimentally test whether expert organizations on social media can correct misperceptions of the scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified (GM) food for human consumption, as well as what role social media cues, in the form of “likes,” play in that process. We find expert organizations highlighting scientific consensus on GM food safety reduces consensus misperceptions among the public, leading to lower GM misperceptions and boosting related consumption behaviors in line with the gateway belief model. Expert organizations’ credibility may increase as a result of correction, but popularity cues do not seem to affect misperceptions or credibility.

Data sharing, international property practices and the GDPR: communicating with your consumers

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Cradduck ◽  
Scarlett Stevens ◽  
Matthew Cowan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Public Access ◽  
European Economic Area ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Content Type ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
General Data

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in order to: identify its requirements for the Australian and New Zealand based members of multi-national property firms (“MNPF”); and understand how those firms are currently engaging with customers regarding the obligations the GDPR imposes.Design/methodology/approachThe research was undertaken by means of doctrinal legal research that engaged with statutory law, related policy documents, accessible private firm documents and website materials, and academic and other related writings. The authors considered these in the context of the GDPR's requirements, and how relevant obligations were communicated to the public on the MNPF Australian and New Zealand members' websites.FindingsThe research confirms the available literature's observations of the GDPR's broad reach and the firms to which it applies. The difficulties experienced in locating relevant information highlights the need for a change to firm processes to ensure that any communication obligations are met. The cases engaged with also serve to highlight the need to ensure that the actual practice is consistent with required GDPR processes.Research limitations/implicationsThe research faced three limitations. First: there was a limited number of relevant Australian and New Zealand based property related firms available to consider: not all property related firms were members of a MNPF or had business partners or customers/clients in the European Union or European Economic Area. Second: one of the relevant firms had already identified it was withdrawing from the Australian market. Third: there was a lack of public access to all materials as, while privacy policies as required by domestic laws were readily accessible, access was not readily available to GDPR related or required information or documents.Originality/valueThe research adds to the academic literature in this emerging area of international legal obligation.

scholarly journals La responsabilidad proactiva de las Administraciones Públicas en la protección de datos personales.

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
Aritz ROMEO RUIZ
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Terms ◽  
General Data

Laburpena: Lan honen helburua da administrazio publikoak datu pertsonalen tratamenduan duen erantzukizun proaktiboaren printzipioaren analisia eskaintzea, eta ikuspegi juridikoa ematea praktikan errazago aplikatzeko. Lana lau ataletan egituratuta dago. Lehenengoan, datu pertsonalen babesa arautzen duen esparru berriaren aurkezpen orokorra egiten da; hau da, Datuak Babesteko Erregelamendu Orokorrak (EB) ezartzen duen araudi berria aurkezten da. Bigarren atala erantzukizun proaktiboari buruzkoa da, administrazio publikoek datu pertsonalak tratatzeko oinarrizko printzipio gisa. Hirugarrenak proposatzen ditu administrazio publikoek praktikan erantzukizun proaktiboaren printzipioa betetzeko kontuan har ditzaketen hainbat neurri. Azkenik, laugarren atalak gogoeta egiten du antolamendu-aldaketak egiteko beharrari buruz, Erregelamendu Orokorraren printzipioak betetzen dituztela ziurtatzeko eta herritarrek eskubideak balia ditzaten ziurtatzeko; horrez gain, aipamen berezia egiten dio datuak babesteko ordezkariaren figurari. Ondorioztatzen den ideia nagusia da garrantzitsua dela administrazio publikoek datuak babesteko politika bat diseinatzea, lehenetsita aplikatuko dena, eta ez bakarrik erantzukizun politikoak dituztenei, baizik eta sektore publikoan lan egiten duten pertsona guztiei eragingo diena. Resumen: El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo ofrecer un análisis del principio de responsabilidad proactiva en el tratamiento de datos personales por parte de la administración pública, y pretende aportar una visión jurídica para facilitar su aplicación en la práctica. El trabajo está estructurado en cuatro apartados. En el primero de ellos se presenta, en términos generales, el nuevo marco regulador de la protección de datos personales, que es consecuencia del Reglamento (UE) General de Protección de Datos. El segundo apartado está dedicado a la responsabilidad proactiva como principio básico del tratamiento de datos personales por las administraciones públicas. El tercero propone una serie de medidas que las administraciones públicas pueden tener en cuenta para cumplir con el principio de responsabilidad proactiva en la práctica. Finalmente, el apartado cuarto aporta una reflexión sobre la necesidad de introducir cambios organizacionales para asegurar el cumplimiento de los principios del Reglamento General de Protección de datos y del ejercicio de derechos por la ciudadanía, con una especial mención a la figura del delegado o delegada de protección de datos. La principal idea que se concluye es la importancia de que las administraciones públicas diseñen una política de protección de datos que se aplique por defecto, e implique, no sólo a quienes ejercen responsabilidades políticas, sino a todas las personas que trabajan en el sector público. Abstract: The present work aims to offer an analysis of the principle of proactive responsibility in the treatment of personal data by the public administration, and aims to provide a legal vision to facilitate its practical implementation. The work is structured in four sections. The first of these presents, in general terms, the new regulatory framework for the protection of personal data, which is a consequence of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU). The second section is dedicated to proactive responsibility as a basic principle of the processing of personal data by public administrations. The third proposes a series of measures that public administrations can take into account to comply with the principle of proactive responsibility in practice. Finally, the fourth section provides a reflection on the need to introduce organizational changes to ensure compliance with the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation and the exercise of rights by citizens, with special reference to the figure of the Data Protection Officer. The main idea that is concluded is the importance for public administrations to design a data protection policy that is applied by default, and involves not only those who exercise political responsibilities, but also all those who work in the public sector.

scholarly journals Consumers' Awareness and Trust Toward Food Safety News on Social Media in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 452-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAN MEI SOON
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Safety Issue ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Food Poisoning ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Willingness To Purchase ◽  
Total Agreement

ABSTRACT Social media offers numerous advantages for personal users and organizations to communicate, socialize, and market their products. When used correctly, social media is an effective tool to communicate and to share food safety news and good practices. However, there have been reports of fake food safety news shared via social media, fueling panic and resulting in a loss of revenue. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the consumers' awareness, trust, and usage of social media in communicating food safety news in Malaysia. A questionnaire divided into five sections—(i) demographics, (ii) reaction to food safety news, (iii) consumers' awareness, (iv) social media truth and level of trust, and (v) social media uses and content creation—was created and shared online. A total of 341 questionnaires were returned of which 339 surveys were valid. This study revealed that less than one-third of the study group (27.1%) knew which of the food safety news were fake. Most respondents (67.8%) were less likely to purchase the affected foods if the foods were featured in social media as problematic, although no differences were made between true and fake news and how that would influence respondents' willingness to purchase affected foods. Overall, 62% of the respondents agreed or strongly agreed about the usage of social media and its ability to prevent food poisoning cases, while more than 50% of the respondents were in total agreement that social media allow consumers to act more responsibly by sharing food safety news. Respondents tended to trust information shared by scientists (67.5%) and family members and friends (33%). Respondents would most often share the news after verifying its authenticity (46%). If respondents experienced a personal food safety issue (e.g., discovered a fly in their meal), they seldom or never took photos to post online (56.1%). It is possible that the respondents preferred to inform the food handlers and/or shop owners about the affected products rather than post the photos online. It is suggested that targeted food safety information and media literacy be provided to improve consumers' awareness and to positively influence self-verification of the food safety information before sharing. This study provides crucial insights for a range of stakeholders, particularly public authorities, food bloggers, and the public, in using social media effectively to build consumers' awareness and trust in food safety information. HIGHLIGHTS

Developing a Digital Welfare State: Data Protection and the Use of Automated Decision-Making in the Public Sector across Six EU Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Choroszewicz ◽  
Beata Mäihäniemi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Data ◽  
Automated Decision Making

This article uses the sociolegal perspective to address current problems surrounding data protection and the experimental use of automated decision-making systems. This article outlines and discusses the hard laws regarding national adaptations of the European General Data Protection Regulation and other regulations as well as the use of automated decision-making in the public sector in six European countries (Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Finland, France, and the Netherlands). Despite its limitations, the General Data Protection Regulation has impacted the geopolitics of the global data market by empowering citizens and data protection authorities to voice their complaints and conduct investigations regarding data breaches. We draw on the Esping-Andersen welfare state typology to advance our understanding of the different approaches of states to citizens’ data protection and data use for automated decision-making between countries in the Nordic regime and the Conservative-Corporatist regime. Our study clearly indicates a need for additional legislation regarding the use of citizens’ data for automated decision-making and regulation of automated decision-making. Our results also indicate that legislation in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark draws upon the mutual trust between public administrations and citizens and thus offers only general guarantees regarding the use of citizens’ data. In contrast, Germany, France, and the Netherlands have enacted a combination of general and sectoral regulations to protect and restrict citizens’ rights. We also identify some problematic national policy responses to the General Data Protection Regulation that empower governments and related institutions to make citizens accountable to states’ stricter obligations and tougher sanctions. The article contributes to the discussion on the current phase of the developing digital welfare state in Europe and the role of new technologies (i.e., automated decision-making) in this phase. We argue that states and public institutions should play a central role in strengthening the social norms associated with data privacy and protection as well as citizens’ right to social security.

USE OF PASSENGER LOCATION CARDS IN THE ERA OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, AND THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA OF AIR PASSENGERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 2-2
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Biczysko-Pudełko
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
The State ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Data ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Questionnaire Method ◽  
General Regulation

Purpose. The aim of the article is to analyse the processing of personal data of air passengers during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the context of doubts that have arisen in connection with the need for these passengers to provide their personal data as part of filling out the Passenger Location Card questionnaire. Method. The research method used in this study is case study. Findings. In the study, it was showed that firstly, the data of air passengers processed in relation to the application of the Passenger Location Card by the State Border Sanitary Inspectorate in Warsaw should be protected under the provisions of the General Regulation on the protection of personal data. Furthermore, their controller, i.e. the State Border Sanitary Inspectorate in Warsaw, did not fulfil its obligations in this regard. This, in effect, justifies the conclusion that the processing process not in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data. Research and conclusions limitations. The analysis concerned only passengers of aircrafts arriving and/or departing from airports located on the territory of the Republic of Poland. Practical implications. The analysis carried out in this study may provide a solution to the issues that have arisen in the public sector with regard to the processing of personal data collected from air passengers on the basis of the Passenger Location Card questionnaire and thus, the conclusions may prove useful for data controllers who should be aware of such problems, but also for air travellers as data subjects who should be protected by the General Data Protection Regulation and their rights in this regard. Originality. This analysis, if only for the reason that it is an analysis of a problem that has come to light relatively recently (March 2020), has so far, only been the subject of consideration in press articles.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF GDPR TO DIGITAL MEDIA

ZBORNIK MES ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna Čošabić
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Online News ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Private Data ◽  
General Data ◽  
The Impact

This paper shall analyze the impact of General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) to concept of business of digital media, having in mind their overwhelming presence and especially their impact to private data of their clients or customers. Special features that are going to be dealt with in this paper relate to processing of personal data by digital media under the GDPR, which include teritorrial scope of GDPR and its global applicability, type of personal data processed by digital media, profiling and behavioral advertising, options for consent, the use of cookies and geographical location. Purpose of their processing shall be analysed as well, with reflection to some important cases and examples. It relies on widely understood concept of digital media, including social media, online news portals, blog websites and shall pursue to point out to some crucial changes that that digital media are facing now, and that will affect their way of doing business, after the GDPR became operative on 25 May 2018.

scholarly journals Data Privacy Management in Public Environments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Lopes ◽  
Valderi R. Q. Leithardt ◽  
Ivan Miguel Pires ◽  
Raúl García-Ovejero ◽  
María Navarro-Cáceres
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Technological Evolution ◽  
Privacy Management ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Control And Management ◽  
Public Environment

The mobile devices caused a constant struggle for the pursuit of data privacy. Nowadays, it appears that the number of mobile devices in the world is increasing. With this increase and technological evolution, thousands of data associated with everyone are generated and stored remotely. Thus, the topic of data privacy is highlighted in several areas. There is a need for control and management of data in circulation inherent to this theme. This article presents an approach of the interaction between the individual and the public environment, where this interaction will determine the access to information. This analysis was based on a data privacy management model in public environments created after reading and analyzing the current technologies. A mobile application based on location via Global Positioning System (GPS) was created to substantiate this model, which it considers the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to control and manage access to the data of each individual.

An Ontology based Framework for E-Government Regulatory Requirements Compliance

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mahmudul Hasan ◽  
Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos ◽  
George Kousiouris ◽  
Teta Stamati ◽  
Peri Loucopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Government Service ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Regulatory Requirement ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
General Data ◽  
Government Legislation

E-Government has gained an enormous amount of attention by researchers and practitioners interested in digitizing the public sector through enacting policies and regulations. Compliance of regulatory requirements from these policies and regulations is an important requirement in e-Government service development projects. However, the concepts of regulatory requirements compliance are still scattered around in developing e-Government services. This article presents an e-Government regulatory requirement compliance (eGRRC) ontology framework that describes the interrelated concepts of regulatory requirements compliance in e-Government service development. The proposed eGRRC ontology is then applied on the recently introduced general data protection regulation (GDPR) for personal data processing across European Union (EU) countries, in order to indicate how the concepts can be mapped to the defined entities. The contribution of this article is on introducing a framework for researchers and practitioners to explore regulatory requirements compliance and their interrelationships in e-Government service development. Furthermore, e-Government legislation can accordingly be modeled using on the eGRRC ontology, that serves as basis for queries to infer knowledge about the source of regulatory requirements, objectives of the regulation, various types of requirements, the services affected, orientation of regulatory rules in requirements, priorities, and amendments of regulations in e-Government service development.

scholarly journals Designing a Distributed Ledger Technology System for Interoperable and General Data Protection Regulation–Compliant Health Data Exchange: A Use Case in Blood Glucose Data (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hawig ◽  
Chao Zhou ◽  
Sebastian Fuhrhop ◽  
Andre S Fialho ◽  
Navin Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Blood Glucose ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Concept System ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Distributed Ledger ◽  
General Data

BACKGROUND Distributed ledger technology (DLT) holds great potential to improve health information exchange. However, the immutable and transparent character of this technology may conflict with data privacy regulations and data processing best practices. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to develop a proof-of-concept system for immutable, interoperable, and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)–compliant exchange of blood glucose data. METHODS Given that there is no ideal design for a DLT-based patient-provider data exchange solution, we proposed two different variations for our proof-of-concept system. One design was based purely on the public IOTA distributed ledger (a directed acyclic graph-based DLT) and the second used the same public IOTA ledger in combination with a private InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) cluster. Both designs were assessed according to (1) data reversal risk, (2) data linkability risks, (3) processing time, (4) file size compatibility, and (5) overall system complexity. RESULTS The public IOTA design slightly increased the risk of personal data linkability, had an overall low processing time (requiring mean 6.1, SD 1.9 seconds to upload one blood glucose data sample into the DLT), and was relatively simple to implement. The combination of the public IOTA with a private IPFS cluster minimized both reversal and linkability risks, allowed for the exchange of large files (3 months of blood glucose data were uploaded into the DLT in mean 38.1, SD 13.4 seconds), but involved a relatively higher setup complexity. CONCLUSIONS For the specific use case of blood glucose explored in this study, both designs presented a suitable performance in enabling the interoperable exchange of data between patients and providers. Additionally, both systems were designed considering the latest guidelines on personal data processing, thereby maximizing the alignment with recent GDPR requirements. For future works, these results suggest that the conflict between DLT and data privacy regulations can be addressed if careful considerations are made regarding the use case and the design of the data exchange system.

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