Government sends first signal of intention for UK data protection laws to part company with EU's General Data Protection Regulation.
  • Ghast
    71·
    4 years ago

    The current information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, is due to leave her post in October. Dowden said that under the regime ‘too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them’.

    This is bollocks. I had to work with GDPR for my work, and it broadly went like this:

    Are you racially profiling children for profit?

    No?

    Okay, good to go

    Once every 3 months someone asks us to delete their data with us “because GDPR”, and it takes like 2 minutes.

    • uthredii
      10·
      4 years ago

      who does? The half of the uk who voted against brexit?

      As if there aren’t superrich shitheads who control the press and have decades of experience convincing people to vote against their own interests.

      • 33YN2
        61·
        4 years ago

        I feel you. It’s happening in the US too. Sadly it’s only just started. Get ready for some rough years.

  • disrooter
    410·
    4 years ago

    Well, more national sovereignty and less power to supranational organizations not controlled by anyone but lobbyists.