[StaffsLUG Meetings] Fwd: [org-stoke] Data Discrimination Bill Meeting on Tuesday 28th March

Thought I'd also forward you all a copy of this. ORG Stoke are having their second physical meetup in the same room that we use for LUG meetings on the 28th March (so 2 weeks after the 'Revolution OS' screening I just e-mailed about). It should a be a great opportunity to meet new people (that we might be able to tell them about the LUG too)... as ORG will be advertising this out to their supporters that they have in the local area. Please join their mailing list if you haven't already done so (and let them know you'll come)... https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/org-stoke Or if you have a Meetup account then you can just RSVP to their meeting or e-mail them (information for both is below) Steven Maddox Lantizia -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [org-stoke] Data Discrimination Bill Meeting on Tuesday 28th March Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 18:22:04 +0000 From: Steven Maddox <s.maddox(a)lantizia.me.uk&gt; Reply-To: ORG Stoke-on-Trent <org-stoke(a)lists.openrightsgroup.org&gt; To: org-stoke(a)lists.openrightsgroup.org Hello again, This is to announce that we'll be having our second physical meet up on the Tuesday 28th March. We were going to do one back in December but the timing just didn't seem quite right with Christmas and luckily the person we liaise with at ORG will be promoting this meeting to anyone who is in the local area who is on the ORG general mailing list (e.g. if you've ever signed a petition, donated, asked for a newsletter, etc..). It'd be great to see some of you that came to the meeting in June (after the COVID-19 restrictions were lifted and we weren't stuck doing Jitsi meetings!).  Especially now that we're organising things with our own mailing list, rather than organising things elsewhere (e.g. through LUG channels).  We can start to gather our communications about specific ORG Stoke-on-Trent matters here instead. We'll be having two more in-person meetings this year so don't worry if you can't make this one. This meeting will cover exactly what the 'Data Protection and Digital Information Bill' is, what it started out as, and how it is currently progressing. Particularly we'll be covering how it attempts to amend the 'Data Protection Act' since it was updated to conform with GDPR back in 2018.  ORG have sent us a tonne of leaflets about this issue so it'd be brilliant if you can take some and distribute them out wherever you think is appropriate locally. It's the same venue as before... but for those that didn't come last time, it's just an office in a building on Keele Science Park that fits around 30 people.  We've got access to tea & coffee, soft drinks, and a vending machine. The presentation we'll giving is for everyone, as it'll affect us all whether you're just an average member of the public or involved in an organisation that processes or controls data on behalf of others... this will be bad news if it gets through unscathed for us all. So please bring along along your friends, family, or significant other... digital rights affect us all. 📅 Tuesday 28th March ⏰ 6:30pm arrival, 7pm main activities 📍 Innovation Centre 1 building, Keele University, ST5 5NB, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. 🌐 Latitude: 53.003668 Longitude: -2.269742 Directions: We're based on the Keele University campus just off the M6 in Staffordshire, just west of Stoke-on-Trent. The building we're in is simply marked 'IC' on the side (so not IC2, IC3, etc...) on the Science Park area of the campus. 🚗 For parking you must use the the spaces marked 'Internet Central' in the lower and rear car park behind the building. 🚪 Ring the door bell next to the door with the big 'Internet Central' sign next to it, at the rear of the building. Although it's not required, it would be useful for numbers if we know you're coming, so either... 1) reply to this message 2) e-mail us privately on our (new!) e-mail address of stoke(a)openrightsgroup.org 3) RSVP to the Meetup event... https://www.meetup.com/org-stoke-on-trent/events/291869090 Thanks, Steven Maddox -- Steven Maddox Lantizia -- org-stoke mailing list org-stoke(a)lists.openrightsgroup.org https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/org-stoke