So a week tomorrow the sky falls on our head.

[PSRB]

Actualy, it’s pretty important for us,but happily we employ a cohort of detail monkeys for all that. We’ve been paying them coin for years to ensure we have no problem with this.

It was all going really well until we were told we had to clear our emails as well, over 40,000 of them

[Ash]

It was all going really well until we were told we had to clear our emails as well, over 40,000 of them

Easier to hope that your email server isn't hacked, or just delete the feckin lot and keep an archive in a locked safe so you can restore when you need something.

[Tony C]

I was required to do a course on this and pass a test.

C**** made the pass mark 100%

Luckily I passed it first time unlike the Corporate Bribery one...kind of struggled on that one.

[Rich]

If you don't know what I'm on about you either work in a corner shop or you're not prepared.

What's it all about, then? I keep getting emails which effectively say 'please let me continue to clog your email box with nonsense - you need to give me permission now.

Naturally I will not do this as I am sick with the amount of rubbish I receive which never, ever gets read.

[Burney]

If something like this law had been introduced a few hundred years ago there'd be no history. Record-keeping is as old as civilisation and it is from those that we learn much of what happened in the past. Suddenly the very concept of keeping records is under question. Not that there aren't some sensible ideas about security and privacy in the legislation, but ultimately compliance with this thing is practically impossible.

I'm sure journalism has worked out how it intends to navigate it all but I am curious - If you print 'fact' A about citizen X, can X claim that you are not only keeping personal information without consent, but that you are publishing and selling it, and that is not even accurate data if they dispute the fact? You can claim public interest but will you win?

The requirements are vast, the obligations complex, yet vague and contradictory, the costs considerable, and the punishments are draconian if the powers-that be want to enforce them (the potential for corrupt political abuse is quite disturbing).

I could go on for hours and I probably will
but I'd sooner put some joy back in ...

etc

Ah, well the joy is that journalism remains protected by the laws theLords tried to destroy last week. GDPR is all about commercial info.

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

If you don't know what I'm on about you either work in a corner shop or you're not prepared.

You just have to have a concrete plan for being compliant, don't you?.

I look forward to the day after I leave my job where I'll use GDPR to instruct my employer to collate all PI and SPI data and remove it from all internal systems within the appropriate timelines.

[SWv2]

You just have to have a concrete plan for being compliant, don't you?.

I look forward to the day after I leave my job where I'll use GDPR to instruct my employer to collate all PI and SPI data and remove it from all internal systems within the appropriate timelines.

So how will they pay you then?

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

So how will they pay you then?

I'll have left by then and all monies will have been paid. You only do this after you leave not during your notice period

[SWv2]

I'll have left by then and all monies will have been paid. You only do this after you leave not during your notice period

Ah, I see. An important detail you did not include.

I would urge caution however. You go to your new position and for whatever reason it does not work out, your current CV has time assigned to your current employer whom you will be asking to delete all PD and indeed SPI quoting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/67.

If a potential new employer looks into this your current employer will not be able to verify or confirm any details of your time there.

For all a prospective employer knows you could have been in jail.

[IUFG]

I'll have left by then and all monies will have been paid. You only do this after you leave not during your notice period

And they'll say, we need to keep your details for 6 years + to fulfill our statutory accounting requirements.