GDPR (or the newest excuse to find offence where there is none)

whomitconcerns

I keep reading these threads on here about gdpr and people giveing scenarios where they are certain it's a gdpr breach because "the taxi driver who picked me up, knew my name" or similar.

What is with this fascination? One of the latest I read here was someone trying to find issue in being told they were a contact of a covid person, they got tested, found that they did indeed contact covid and now they are asking if it was a gdpr breach!

Gross misunderstanding of the legislation mixed with a supposed knowledge from various sources.

Any law / medical issues that are new and discussed at length will produce experts.

EmmetSpiceland

It’s, generally, being used as a lazy excuse not to do work in the “private” sector.

Then you have government departments claiming their hands are tied when it comes to providing “information”, or working, with a separate department.

And, yet, at the same time, they’d have no trouble “monitoring”, and spying, on autistic kids through various departments and medical practitioners.

Fr Tod Umptious

You know about Godwin's law about how the longer a internet discussion goes on the more likely someone will bring up Hitler and that Nazis ?

Well there should be the same for GDPR around here.

Numerous times as threads have heated up someone will bring up GDPR.

irishgeo

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Gross misunderstanding of the legislation mixed with a supposed knowledge from various sources.

Any law / medical issues that are new and discussed at length will produce experts.

Compo culture.

The same people giving out about GDPR breaches give far more information away on social media networks than may have occurred in the GDPR "breach"

bnt

The way some American websites freaked out at GDPR, blocking EU visitors ... good. There's so much uncontrolled data mining going on that scaring websites in to examining their practises is a good thing. It's making people who handle data stop and think. I've had a couple of incidents at work where I saw customer data being handled in insecure ways, and raising the matter got some changes made.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Some people attribute GDPR to everything as well these days.

I was having a conversation with two acquaintances after Christmas in the January COVID spike. One of them said that people who have or had COVID should be named, that lists should be released by GPs.

I said "You can't do that, it's a breach of medical confidentiality."

The other piped up "Oh yeah, GDPR!" and I said "No, just plain medical confidentiality. It's been around for years and years!".

People just don't really seem to get what GDPR is. I don't really get it myself but I don't bring it up at all because I know I don't really understand it.

Feisar

I said it before here, it's the new, "oh, health and safety".

the beer revolu

Feisar wrote: »

I said it before here, it's the new, "oh, health and safety".

Or, "insurance".

There was a claim in another thread that newspapers were in trouble for publishing cc footage of an incident. Surely the legislation wasn’t designed to stop newspaper investigations. Other claims were that the cc should have deleted after 90 days even though there was an ongoing police investigation. Surely a police investigation is going to hold onto evidence for as long as necessary. Decades if needed. Another claim was that there was a civil case against the newspaper but GDPR is investigated by the DPC.

I don’t claim to be an expert on it by the way, but I know that those claims are rubbish. GDPR was designed to stop data mining by large tech companies. There are all kinds of caveats and opt out clauses for public interest, police, journalists and the general “business use case”

Is it true that GDPR didn't even create much in the way of new law, it simply consolidated the EU data protection legislation/regulations that were already in existence?

I think there have been some new material, but if the above is true, then GDPR-panic is even more puzzling.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Is it true that GDPR didn't even create much in the way of new law, it simply consolidated the EU data protection legislation/regulations that were already in existence?

I think there have been some new material, but if the above is true, then GDPR-panic is even more puzzling.

Too an extent. Much of our data protection already existed in our own laws.