Gdpr Rules - A Complete Joke.

[10ClarionSt]

What a farce these new rules will be. The govt says they will enhance and improve our privacy. If anyone believes that then they must believe that Naomi will be the next Labour PM. The govt will disclose our personal details to anyone who will give them a few quid for it. It's a complete joke and total hypocrisy. Privacy my armpit!

[fiction-factory]

It's an EU law.
It may help at the mrgins but it will bog down many legitimate businesses who struggle to comply while the unscrupuluous ones will carry on regardless. I get half a dozen emails every day from companies on their GDPR policy- some of whom I don't ever remember using- and some require me to log in to an account I don't even remember having or have no idea of my log in details. Others I speak to seem unsure whether to just ignore the emails or whether to study each one carefully. I think very few will do the latter. I think it's going to cause some people problems though by ignoring it. I bet lots of orgnaisations e.g. clubs and small businesses don't have a clue what to do. It seems a mess

[Prudie]

I agree, both at work and at home I'm getting inundated with emails and website messages about this new policy. I think apart from those who wrote it nobody else understands it all. At work staff have taken it to mean they can't hold any personal details on their PCs without it being registered so it's back with the filing cabinets and folders.

[Jackdaw33]

If someone told me what GDPR stands for I might be better enlightened.

[Prudie]

General Data Protection Regs - it's the new revised data protection rules.

[rockyracoon]

The emails are driving me mad.

Some you have to respond to, some you can just ignore, some I've never heard of.

This is gonna be a scammers delight.

[rockyracoon]

And, I've a load of emails in my work mailbox, that will need attention.

[anthro-nerd]

I have just deleted all the spam emails in my inbox, in theory, I should no longer receive ANY spam and I never gave them permission to email me in the first place.

What are the chances of that? I wonder how many spam emails I'll have by the end of the day...

[Mamyalynne]

I agree that the confusion lies in the fact that with some, you need take no action and with others you do - meaning trawling through them all to double check.

Consistency would have helped.

[HansUrbancka]

I agree it's a complete joke and does very little if anything to protect our privacy.

How are issues going to be 'Policed'.? It appears that it will be a matter for individuals to report cases where sites are thought to be acting outside of the regulations. Which leaves me asking, how will we know what sites are passing our personal details onto others.?

Let's face facts....It could be that AB is deeply involved with Google and from a 'Tracker' cookie is passing lots of information to the organisation which is controlling advertising worldwide. Also, as AB's Internet Server is in the United States and outside of the European Union, what can be done if AB's Server collects our personal information and distributes it without our consents.

Perhaps it's a very clever move on the part of AB to have put us in the position of......."The AnswerBank requires cookies in order for the website to work correctly. Please press "ok" to accept cookies and continue using the website, or press "Decline" to navigate away from the website.

Hans.

[10ClarionSt]

I think the govt is in breach of the act by disclosing personal details to non-government organisations in return for a fee. It's a breach of trust and confidentiality and hypocritical. Can I report the govt to the ICO for this?

[goodgoalie]

I agree, Clarion - like the DVLA selling personal info to private parking sharks

[10ClarionSt]

Me too, GG. There is also the question of selling information from the electoral register. I know people have the choice to opt out, but that shouldn't be an option. It should be confidential for govt use only. It really annoys me to see officials bleating on about privacy and it's importance, then going totally against that.

[THECORBYLOON]

Which part of the GDPR is the Government breaking?

[goodgoalie]

I wonder how GDPR will affect companies like 192.com which use info from the electoral register to provide people's addresses. They give general information about where the person lives, then the full address if you pay.

[Canary42]

From what I understand (which may be incorrect, it's the usual verbose small-print stuff) about the new rules, Companies can no longer use "default" setting to spam you (e.g. with pre-ticked boxes for example) and they must get your specific permission directly before they can, ignoring previous permissions prior to the new act.

To me, this means the ones now e-mailing with the "you need do-nothing" option are in fact in contravention of the new rules, but of course these don't come into force until today, so it's rather a grey area - typical committee legislation.

And as FF says, it won't affect the unscrupulous ones anyway unless some test cases ARE successfully brought. No doubt hungry lawyers are waiting in the wings.

[Davemano]

from the electoral register to provide people's addresses. They give general information about where the person lives, then the full address if you pay. //

GG. Electoral Rolls contain names and addresses, and so far as I am aware the information is available to anyone, and there is no payment involved.

[goodgoalie]

Well, I'm assuming they use electoral registers, but they may well get the info from other sources, sources where the person involved probably has not given informed consent for their details to be passed on.

[Davemano]

I have had letters and one or two emails but they were only asking for my authority to use my details, and that without the consent they were NOT able to pass on any information. Not replying meant NO authorisation was being given.

[DonaldWard34]

GDPR might be very painful for the businessmen as it is adding to their expenses. But GDPR(https://www.hipaaguide.net/gdpr-training/)| is a law enforced by EU that will establish a healthy environment for all the EU citizens.

GDPR is pretty complicated to understand, and it requires training of the employees to be compliant with GDPR. But once you are compliant with GDPR, you can handle any unwanted situations ad data breach will be permanently stopped.