The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect on Friday, May 25. Given our core principles of individual control and transparency, we were largely in alignment with the regulation. This was reaffirmed in an expert legal review of our data privacy practices. Most of our compliance efforts have therefore focused on fine-tuning our internal […]
Getting Ready for GDPR
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into effect on May 25, 2018, is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. GDPR will apply to all companies processing the personal data of all European Union residents, regardless of the company’s location. Researcher control and privacy are core principles […]
Valuing privacy and transparency
Individual control is a core ORCID principle that we reaffirm each year during our audit of ORCID’s policies and practices. ORCID users control what information is added to their record, the visibility of that information, and which organizations can access a user’s record to read, write, or update their information. Individuals can store information such […]