Quote Originally Posted by Pat Vegas View Post
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.