BRS and GDPR

What is the gdpr issue? It’s a name who could be anyone. Not like it’s John Smith 1 Main Street, St Andrew’s.

Can every Joe soap see the timesheet names or just members who log in?

I'm guessing it's a personal privacy thing more than any GDPR issue.

Everyone pretty much knows everyone in our club. If my work involved dealing with other members, I'm not sure I would be delighted with them knowing when I was golfing. I'm sure the odd tradesman has received the odd snide remark for e.g.

But I can't see any real way around it.

So you don’t like members seeing you playing the game you all play or is it the wife thinking your working but you’ve sneaked out for a quick 3 holes on way home from work. You’re overthinking it. 99% don’t gives a toss who’s playing.

Yes, it's the same everywhere. The obvious reasons are insurance and identification. Eg if someone was playing and not paid their green fee/membership.

Also this isn't a GDPR issue whatsoever. What area of GDPR do you think is being broken here?

The listing of your name and any member is a fairly obvious standard process for plenty of reasons. I don't see a "personal" impact on an individual where it would trump having your name listed on a tee sheet.

The purpose of GDPR was not to give people a cloak of anonymity to adorn as they choose. It was prevent organisations collating, using and selling your data for their own gain.

A timesheet doesn’t fall foul of this. It’s a dataset that facilitates a club and its members in accurately fulfilling duties. No different to a staff rota.

I think this is part of it, for insurance reasons incase anything happens (and previously for Covid contact tracing purposes etc). Also some courses have problems with "visitors" sneaking out for a few holes in the evenings when the pro shop closes - easy for members to check the timesheet on the phone to see.

If there is a free slot beside your name of course they do. It’s their course/club as much as it is yours.

So you are agreeing with me?? 🤷‍♂️

Maybe you should give up golf if you are so worried .

Send a link from this thread to both Seanie and Eugene and after reading it I'm sure neither will have any problem withdrawing their names rather than spend a few hours with you on the golf course.

So what gdpr rule is broken?

A name is a small piece of data that can personally identify you but is not an absolute identifier. Their name is not published or shared publicly. It is internal to the members of the golf club and their booking system. Every club on their membership terms/policies should refer specifically to their data policy and also when you sign up to use BRS that they are bound by BRS relevant data policies. It would be odd to be in a club where you don't know who's even in it.

I'm very curious about your criteria for these articles being breached.

Article 5, I see nothing to conflict here. You are consenting to have your data processed in a legitimate, adequate and minimal manner (the least amount of identifiable info). It is used for a very specific purpose.

Article 25, There is no glaring design/process flaw here in the BRS. The most minimal data is visible, only to members inside the walled garden of your club BRS.

Article 32, What is the organisational process or technical limitation is here relevant to a person's name appearing on BRS tee times which means your data is being processed insecurely?

Putting it very simply, everyone 100% has the right to their personal data being protected in the fullest sense possible. However, in this case, a BRS user gives consent that a minimal amount of personal data is shared in a secured platform, that is private to members and used fairly and reasonably.

If we were to say everyone has the right to never have their information recorded or published anywhere. You'd basically never have existed on the planet, never drive a car, no bank account, never went on a plane, etc etc. Unless you want to live with an uncontacted tribe somewhere off the grid but by all means go for it.

Speaking as a member of a golf club, I'd be very disappointed if the names were blanked on the timesheets.

I like to be able to chose who I play with.

Should the names of footballers not be included in newspaper match reports?

Should television commentators only refer to players as numbers (with players having different numbers for each match)?

When people's names and addresses were in phone books, did they suffer greatly?