Sunday, June 3, 2018

Emilio Mordini: GDPR, The Great Gatsby, and Mark Zuckerberg

Emilio Mordini: GDPR, The Great Gatsby, and Mark Zuckerberg: Heterogonie der Zwecke  (heterogony of ends) is an expression coined in 1886 by German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt, to indicate an intenti...

GDPR, The Great Gatsby, and Mark Zuckerberg


Heterogonie der Zwecke (heterogony of ends) is an expression coined in 1886 by German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt, to indicate an intentional action which ends up achieving unexpected, even opposite, ends. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), enforced by the European Union on May 25th, 2018 to protect the “fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons and in particular their right to the protection of personal data” (art.1), offers some amusing examples of heterogony of ends (read the full article)