GDPR - does anybody really care?

I care

Gosh! Somebody who gullibly swallows and regurgitates right-wing anti-EU tropes also has a deferential attitude to the commercial interests of big corporates, and is dismissive of concerns about the rights and interests of the individual! Who could possibly have foreseen this strikingly unusual combination of characteristics in one person!

The Gloomster is bored and being provocative. Go out and enjoy the sun!

Data is very powerful tool to generate income. Anything from to and between personal data and customer profiling. We have data analytics for that reason.

GDPR is necessary.

25 years ago we were not buying practically anything online. That has changed.

we were walking into actual businesses, in buildings purchasing clothing, electronics, CDs, furniture, weekly shopping etc….

now practically everything we buy online, we have to give copious amounts of information over to businesses whereas all the above, we in times before gave them nothing aside from cash…. They didn’t know who we were…where we lived, they’d no email, contact number, just or cash… but that’s not good enough any longer…. now even in in person transactions, we are being handed forms, cards to fill in personal information…one clothing retailer handed me one, I promptly binned it in front of her.

now we are conditioned to be handing over along with our money, copious amounts of our information, free gratis a lot of which they don’t need but a lot of private info which they do, in order to secure the transaction…. Fine but I don’t want Freefall Insurance selling my address information to Skyfall insurance, i don’t want super fitness selling my mobile number to team leisurewear….

information we impart to a company should only be provided and considered to be provided in order to complete a transaction and to manage the account and directly provide a service …….

it should be treated as sacrosanct , private…with legal regulations to prevent its disclosure to all third parties….

The GDPR, as a Regulation, was passed by both the European Parliament (comprised of elected MEPs) and the Council of the European Union (comprised of Government Ministers from the EU member nations) - all of whom are democratically elected to their respective positions by the electorate of the EU, with a specific mandate to vote on such matters.

no idea tbh, it's not like you couldn't find out one way or another anyway.

No one ever elected an EU Commissioner. It's a senior civil servant position, not a politician.

And he didn't bring in GDPR. The European Parliament of elected politicians brought in GDPR.

If you don't want a cookie disclaimer, tell your web developer to remove cookies. It's not hard really.

I went to a funeral in NI recently. As I passed the family home, there was a huge 'WAKE' sign on the grass verge, obviously a local tradition. I certainly wouldn't want my name and address available to all, in the way Thoms Directory or the phonebook had. We were always ex-directory anyway, when it came to the phone book.

If Gloomster really believes the crap he is writing it will be difficult to take seriously anything from him in the future.

Some other posts are equally daft.

GDPR might at times be a PITA but it is a necessary one.

Thoms Directory info  always was years out of date, as anybody who has used one would know. It is far more useful to obtain the electoral registers which are both more up to date and also include everyone aged over 18 living at an address (On-line availability recently stopped by DPC under GDPR rules, BUT  for e.g. DublinRegister is available in hard copy at Pearse St library).

META have cut back globally, like most ICT businesses, the layoff had nothing to do with the GDPR ruling as implied above.

Many companies have welcomed GDPR as it allows them escape data retention – e.g. A few years ago I looked for PRSI contribution history from a previous employer – “Sorry, have none of your records, all destroyed, we cannot keep them due to GDPR.”

Anybody working in a financial services role in Ireland takes GDPR  very seriously, due to IAF and SEAR (Individual Accountability Framework and Senior Executive Accountability Regime). as parts are enacted since April and more are coming down the track. Individual fines and jail are not a nice thought.

Think you should re-read the post; I don't get the information but I know it's possible; this would be publicly shared info btw.

Ok, I'll assert again so, it's simple enough to find, if you're willing to do the work and I never said from the internet only, though that's a good starting point.

Fair enough, there might be a struggle to find every single name, I'll bow to you on that but a fairly big majority put the info out there.