2018-05-21 WSVA Show Notes & Podcast

One of the best announcements that came out of this year’s Google I/O was a new Gmail feature called Smart Compose, which can autocomplete entire emails for you.

Unlike many of the other announcements from Google I/O, Gmail Smart Compose can actually be switched on and used right now. It’s all part of the new Gmail experience that Google has been rolling out to customers.

Hands free typing in Microsoft Office! at Dictate.ms for FREE

Dictate is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook, Word and PowerPoint. Use state of the art speech recognition behind Cortana to convert speech to text.

• Supports more than 20 languages for dictation
• Real time translation to 60 languages
• Commands like “new line”, “stop dictation” and “enter” to give more control while dictating
• Two modes of punctuations: Auto and manual for English
• Visual feedback to indicate that speech is being processed

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to give control to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.

It was adopted on 14 April 2016, and after a two-year transition period, becomes enforceable on 25 May 2018.

Data may not be processed unless there is at least one lawful basis to do so:

• The data subject has given consent to the processing of personal data for one or more specific purposes.
• Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
• Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.
• Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person.
• Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
• Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party unless such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require protection of personal data, in particular if the data subject is a child.