Where are the hordes of cold and scary European privacy policy enforcers?
Can you see them slowly roaming and moaning in French, German and other private languages in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or in other parts of Australia?
Look around! It is here! We should all be afraid and prepare for an ultimate onslaught of privacy regulation that has been compared to the upcoming winter in Game of Thrones. Not even Jon Snow and his feisty fellow Rangers of the Night’s Watch could do anything to help the careless unprepared.
It may be too late. You may already draft a cheque of €20 million addressed to the European Union. You may also consider ruling out doing business with those hypersensitive privacy European Unionist snobs!
Alternatively, you could assess the real risk of non-compliance to your business and the opportunity that complying could provide. You could then make an informed business decision to either ignore it or make the most of it.
GDPR is Confusedly Here!
Welcome General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)! Congratulations to the European Union, the proud collective parent of the awaited privacy regulation. The regulation weighs 88 pages (in English) and is now enacted following months of apocalyptic level warnings. We have certainly be warned that “GDPR is coming!” and “The biggest change you’ve never heard of”, asked “Are you prepared?”, and reminded “It’s not too late to get ready”.
You may also have been confused on the subject and wondering whether you should care about it at all. For example, an article published on the Australian Computer Society (ACS) website quotes a cybersecurity vendor representative, supposedly positioned as a GDPR expert, on the criteria of applicability of the regulation. The article states that “Officially, GDPR will only apply to companies with over 250 employees”. It is unfortunately inaccurate and ill-informed. The regulation provides no provision for such full exemption. It officially applies to all businesses managing EU residents’ personal data, independently of the business sizes and at least for the most part of the regulation requirements. The only exception applies to some record-keeping requirements under specific conditions…Click here to read full article.
