Data Controller Options

Full Title or Meme

A description of a few of the ways that a Data Controller might give the required level of control to the user of their information.

Context

• The GDPR started an effort by legal jurisdictions authority to limit the misuse of User Private Information that is spreading around the world.
• Several "Member States" of the EU have defined the GDPR terms, for example Ireland.<ref>Irish Data Protection Commission, Are you a "data

Obligations

• The user is given increasingly control of their information as a reaction to the misuse of that informatin to track and annoy that user.

Use Cases

As there are many reasons for a web site to collect User Information so too there are many different design patterns that apply to the way those sites collect it. A few of those patterns are described here as User Experiences which are called user journeys or use cases.

User Object created first

This use case covers the case where the life of the user object maintained on the site is likely to be of extended duration, say more than a decade or two. Examples are school or medical records where the lifetime of the data is at least as long as the user that owns that identity described in the User Object.

References

Other Materiel

• The wiki on Data Controller gives a broader view of the field.