Timeline for How can you tell if an application author or user is the one controlling or processing data?
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| Mar 11 at 15:01 | comment | added | Lag | If the author has no connection to the data, isn't aware of the existence of the data, I don't see how they can determine the purpose and means of processing the data. If I run an app that helps me organise and analyse customer data, the fact the author made a button that says "sort by name" doesn't mean the author determines the purpose and means of processing the data. | |
| Mar 11 at 14:00 | comment | added | interfect | You might not have a particular reason. Or maybe it is a program you find useful for one or more of the things it does, like a spreadsheet program or a program that can capitalize a whole list of names, among other features. Maybe it is a game and it collects your name and high score and saves it on your PC, and you want to play it. | |
| Mar 11 at 13:46 | comment | added | Lag | Why would I run your program, though? Are you my employer, for example? | |
| Mar 11 at 13:02 | comment | added | interfect | As the author of the program, I determine how the program processes data. I could decide it should process it by means of sorting it and counting the most common first name, or by means of running it through an anomaly detector to identify people who are unusual relative to the others in the data set. This might also count as determining the purpose of the processing: I presumably had some purpose in mind when I wrote the code to accomplish it. | |
| Mar 10 at 9:48 | comment | added | Lag | In your scenario, how/why are you in the position of determining the purpose and means of processing? | |
| Mar 8 at 22:58 | comment | added | interfect | So then if I give you a computer program that you don't know what it does, and you feed in some personal data and run it, I as the program author might be a "controller" because I determined how and for what purpose the program operated on the data. Do I have that right? | |
| Mar 8 at 16:26 | history | edited | Lag | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 8 at 15:27 | history | answered | Lag | CC BY-SA 4.0 |