Right to erasure and Legitimate Interests

[Ash]

It must be annoying. Especially when you are trying to read it and now you have Erasure songs playing in your head.

Luckily I have no Erasure songs permanently recorded in my head. However, I am now grappling with the thrills of Legitimate Interests Assessments and am quickly losing the will to live. And an hour and twenty minutes to go.

[Pat Vegas]

Luckily I have no Erasure songs permanently recorded in my head. However, I am now grappling with the thrills of Legitimate Interests Assessments and am quickly losing the will to live. And an hour and twenty minutes to go.

Is there a deadline to absorb all this info?
tomorrow it will be clearer.

[Ash]

Is there a deadline to absorb all this info?
tomorrow it will be clearer.

The deadline to have all processes, procedures, documents, modified software and consent in place is 28th May 2018. The penalties for non-compliance are up-to extermination.

[Pat Vegas]

The deadline to have all processes, procedures, documents, modified software and consent in place is 28th May 2018. The penalties for non-compliance are up-to extermination.

This sounds all very nazi.

[Ash]

This sounds all very nazi.

It is a bit strict. The actual penalties are up to £20m Euros, which is a death penalty for most companies. The ICO, who will be policing it, have hired 400 staff for prosecuting people, but some of the guidelines on how to actually comply won't be released by them until the end of this year, which will be too late. I'm working partly from a 3rd party estimate of how to comply.

Remember the millenium bug? That was easy to fix and we had years of warning and massive awareness campaigns. This is about ten thousand times more complex than the millenium bug and most people haven't heard about it yet. It won't break software, just make many companies' activities illegal and subject to huge punishments. It will be policed by a system of snitching, I believe.