GDPR - anyone working in this area?
Discussion
Eric Mc said:
Some are better than others. The ICO is tiny - compared to (say) HMRC or the Border Agency.
There's 500 of them, so a reasonable number. They get money from the Government as well as from registration fees.You can see their monthly management accounts: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/our-information/i...
PurpleMoonlight said:
You usually pay at the time of registration.
How come you didn't?
It said if you want to pay by card, pay now if you want to set up a DD we will send the details by email.How come you didn't?
I have never received anything about payment, received the security code and ref number so I know they have the correct address.
TheRainMaker said:
It said if you want to pay by card, pay now if you want to set up a DD we will send the details by email.
I have never received anything about payment, received the security code and ref number so I know they have the correct address.
Ah, fair enough. I pay the first year by card.I have never received anything about payment, received the security code and ref number so I know they have the correct address.
Sheepshanks said:
Eric Mc said:
Some are better than others. The ICO is tiny - compared to (say) HMRC or the Border Agency.
There's 500 of them, so a reasonable number. They get money from the Government as well as from registration fees.You can see their monthly management accounts: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/our-information/i...
UK Border Agency Staff Numbers - 23,000
500 does not seem an awful lot for the oversight they are supposed to have.
PurpleMoonlight said:
Hoofy said:
It does indeed H. It seems I know more about GDPR than the consultants they've paid. I thought it was un-f
king-necessary.
It probably comes under the justification of 'well it can't hurt'.king-necessary.
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Actually, no, it has no value whatsoever. Try going online and getting a penny for your email address. You're not going to have much luck there.Encouraging the public to 'take their toys back' is not going to have the effect some people think it'll have. It certainly won't make the data more valuable - for most companies, the only real value in actual customer data (rather than just contact lists) comes when you've got enough of it (like, terabytes of the stuff) to begin to make useful business decisions. Your individual browsing history etc. is pretty much worthless.
In fact, in some situations it has negative worth. By withholding your personal information, you make the cost of the sales pipeline higher. Cool, that means companies should be paying you for your email address doesn't it? Well, not really because the cost of a sale is something the end customer has to bear anyway. You wouldn't expect that Sainsburys starts to pay you to actually go to their shops to get shopping rather than having it delivered.
You can certainly suggest that discounts might be offered in return for 'being a member' (and that's exactly what you do see on a lot of mailing lists - a reward for making it easier for them to sell you stuff) - but it gets the relationship completely the wrong way round to suggest that you should receive payment for membership.
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