GDPR

[pvt_ak]

Who’s getting sick of emails about this.
Privacy , subscribe etc
Doesn’t the world have more to worry about st the moment than the government imposing this ridiculous set of rules across the industry !

Please !!


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[Fil]

Who’s getting sick of emails about this.
Privacy , subscribe etc
Doesn’t the world have more to worry about st the moment than the government imposing this ridiculous set of rules across the industry !

Please !!


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while i think its a fantastic opportunity to thin out the spam i am inundated with.. simply ignore every email and i will have a lot less chaff the wade thru in my inbox..

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I have for many years used two email addresses one for serious stuff and one for crap any spam that does get through gets marked as spam which to be honest I rarely see.

 

[chewie]

Who’s getting sick of emails about this.
Privacy , subscribe etc
Doesn’t the world have more to worry about st the moment than the government imposing this ridiculous set of rules across the industry !

Please !!


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This is EU governance not UK so it's out of our hands. This goes a long way further than just replying to an email and you can bet your last dollar that the bloodsucking scum that are claims specialists won't be to long in plaguing us with TV adverts about suing businesses or people who fail to comply.

 

[pvt_ak]

You’re right - that’s going to be another bloody annoying headache and stupid jingle !

Watch out watch out data is about.
Call today for a claim !


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[treebeard]

I have been writing our company policies for GDPR for the last 6 months, it has consumed my life. Actually it's just bureaucratic nonsense, much like ISO is. It will not stop spam, the marketing companies will move outside the EU where the rules don't apply. Legitimate companies will ask you to 'OPT-IN' to continue to receive junk mail, others just inform you that they have changed their privacy policy and you need to log-in to update your preferences. My main beef about it all is the fact that it's aimed mainly at large organisations, yet, it affects the small businesses as well, it's not a cheap exercise either.
Small business have been sent into a panic over the scare mongering spewd out by consultants on the web quoting ridiculous fines imposed if you don't comply. The cost to a small business to have a consultant do most of the work for you is in the region of £6k plus expenses.

An example I came across was a hairdressers local to me. They carry out a skin test on clients before they have a colouring or a perm, they then record those details along with the clients name etc; this means that because they are able to identify a living individual and store that sensitive information and their employees can access that data. So they must comply, investing in data security, access control the list goes on and on.

It's a bloody farce!

 

[dad_of_jon]

GDPR comes with fines of up to £10 million or 4% of a companies yearly earnings which ever is greater. It's meant to tighten up the handling of our personal data.

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/ne...ion-commissioner-for-serious-security-breach/

If this happened to you I'm sure you'd think it's a good thing to tighten up on the oh so many cock-up made with our data.

Following one of its principles of pseudo-anonymization would mean that when a company gets hacked there's less chance to identify real people from the data stolen.

You also have the right to have your data deleted there are quite a few good bits there but with any legislation there are usually unintended consequences. The hairdressing example being one. If you have more than 250 employees the company is faced with additional requirements.

ps the hairdresser could just log a 'password' and a recovery question in their database and not store the name against a perm test.

 

[Thumper]

I'm having to deal with this (I'm a salesman/account manager, so our CRM system needs a good clean out as a result). I think it's a good idea, and definitely coming from the right place, but it's a right headache to get yourself compliant.

The reason everyone is so panicky is the fines. A major breach is €20m or 6% of your annual international revenue, whichever is higher. A minor breach is €10m or 4%. I work for a small company, even a minor breach would amount to around 3 years revenue for us.

And you can't just move your data centres, because it specifically applies to anyone holding EU citizen's data, regardless of where they're based. Although I must admit that I struggle to see how they'd enforce it for non-EU companies.

 

[treebeard]

The hairdressers example I gave just highlighted for me the amount of stress and worry they went through and others like them. It is highly unlikely that the ICO would go and audit them, for the data they process they I doubt they even need to register with the ICO, for which there is a cost involved. There is 4 of them, they wash, dry, and cut hair. Thats it. Surely common sense must prevail in those situations? One would hope so.

 

[Thumper]

Surely common sense must prevail in those situations?

I wouldn't hold your breath.

 

[dad_of_jon]

reminds me of the crb record checks for parents of a local club that would offer to take other kids to the venue. instead of 4 cars going... it turned into 12

 

[MyQul]

I'm getting offered discount codes to stay on mailing lists - no brewing ones though

 

[Cwrw666]

I've had one email asking me to opt in - and that from a club I'm a member of who don't actually need to need to comply... It's all b*****ks.

 

[Darenn]

I've had one email asking me to opt in - and that from a club I'm a member of who don't actually need to need to comply... It's all b*****ks.

Every organisation needs to comply. But they don't necessarily need to ask you to opt in again, they just need to make sure they comply with the regulation

 

[foxbat]

Although I must admit that I struggle to see how they'd enforce it for non-EU companies.

I would hope it's enforced like the Americans do with their gambling laws. A writ is issued against the foreign company execs and then the next time they touch down in an American airport its handcuffs time. Happened several times already.

 

[Clint]

Only organisations who store data need to comply.

 

[simon12]

To me its just another example of loads of people out there being paid to work out new regulations to make life harder for businesses just to justify that there job exists when it shouldn't.

 

[brumbrew]

I have for many years used two email addresses one for serious stuff and one for crap any spam that does get through gets marked as spam which to be honest I rarely see.

I'm not the only one.

My work place has been fretting about this. I didn't understand why really.

But we all got a form today asking to sign and say that it's still OK to send digital copies of our payslips to your given email account. On a piece of paper! Oh how I laughed at the irony of paperless systems.

 

[Cwrw666]

Every organisation needs to comply. But they don't necessarily need to ask you to opt in again, they just need to make sure they comply with the regulation

That may be true, but as the authority running this thing has actually said they'll only be dealing with people against whom they have a significant number of complaints then I very much doubt if any small business or organisation that behaves responsibly needs to do anything at all. Personally I'll wait until one of the non existant inspectors comes round and then I'll have a look for the back of the envelope I have lying around somewhere with a few phone numbers scrawled on it.
Definite shades of the millenium bug fiasco.

 

[foxbat]

Day 1 and Facebook and Google have already been hit with $8.8bn of lawsuits alleging that they're breaking GDPR.