Are you ready for the General Data Protection Regulation?

[User]

 

[User482]

Thanks Reg. At work, I control and process personal data so this is something I'm keeping a close eye on.

It will be interesting to see what implications there are online, where an individual could be identified (for example through an IP address) and wants to be forgotten.

 

[Markymark]

It's clear as mud for small businesses. It does not apply to us but does at the same time. We do not need a person, nor need to demonstrate to be compliant yet could get in trouble if we are in breach.

 

[Markymark]

I can provide specialist advice if you wish. My day rates are very reasonable....

I've heard your night rates are even cheaper!

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I've heard your night rates are even cheaper!

I told you that in confidence

 

[Markymark]

Yebbut you wouldn't need longer than 15 minutes (or so I've heard)...

15 minutes??? - would we be watching newsround afterwards????

 

[Markymark]

I heard you like to cuddle.

@User14044 throws it in with his rate and at 3p per hour he's 25% cheaper than you.

 

[Markymark]

I assumed it included tearing you away from the mirror beforehand.

But you told me @User has a mirror above the bed?

 

[wormo]

I work with a few small charities who are caught by this. They are very unhappy with this extra workload. A law brought in in part to deal with the v large charities.

 

[wormo]

I've done some pro bono work with a number of charities around data protection and information governance. I'm astounded by how many trustees in particular have little or no understanding of the current requirements and liabilities, never mind what's coming down the line. One of them is quite a prominent national charity in the social services sphere.

Fortunately the administrator at the last client i was at had just been on the course and felt he was getting there on what was going to happen.

 

[annedonnelly]

Funny you should mention it. Yesterday I was looking at the person spec on a job ad and it mentioned GDPR. I had to Google it...

 

[Prometheus]

General Data Protection Regulation

3 Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”). In certain cases, individuals have the right to obtain from you the erasure of their personal data.

Is the site management up and running on this?

With all the resignations lately 25 thousand posts is a lot

dater to trawl through! (or troll)

 

[glasgowcyclist]

General Data Protection Regulation

3 Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”). In certain cases, individuals have the right to obtain from you the erasure of their personal data.

Is the site management up and running on this?

With all the resignations lately 25 thousand posts is a lot

dater to trawl through! (or troll)

When deleting any user there's an option to retain or delete all posts so it's pretty quick and simple.

 

[MontyVeda]

[QUOTE 5049896, member: 45"]So if someone decides to leave a forum they can request that all of the data they've added is removed?[/QUOTE]
I seem to recall that happening here on CC a couple of times.

 

[Andrew_P]

But say some one with 30k posts and a rampant thread starter decides to leave and wants their posts to leave with them that would have quite dire consequences for the overall site disjointed threads or masses of posts without a thread starter etc., I should imagine hidden somewhere in the T&C there is something saying each users gives up their right of copyright when they click post reply but with these new rules coming in you would have ot suspect they have a right under this law to have all their data erased whether personal or not.