Europe, Boring Until it's Not

[Hastur]

Don't know if it will actually help you or what sort of guidelines or documentation your company's given you to work from, Kath, but this is the official site for the GDPR site, and the section dealing with how companies should respond to it:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic ... sations_en

Also did a brief search for a US firm advising on the GDPR and found this result:

https://www.whitecase.com/publications/ ... regulation

So, it really is loosey-goosey

"Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("data subject"); an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that person.

So, I suppose if the employee had put his employee number somewhere, for whatever reason, and some random person gets access to my system, and finds that number, they could theoretically compare the two numbers. It's a long way to get there, though.

Either, way, I have 10 hours in this already, with easily 30 more to go to scroll through every table that has an employee ID, which is hundreds. I'm just one small system.

This is costing our company thousands of hours, I'll bet. What I have to do is nothing compared to what others have to do.

They should be very, VERY clear on what is PII, because nobody really has a great understanding if a work email address is PII, so we are caring for it, just-in-case.

I looked it up.

Anything that can be used to identify a person directly or indirectly counts. Some examples:

Name
Social security number
email address
Phone number
IP address
Picture
surveillance footage
membership number
customer number
case number
etc.

Remember that all electronic records count. Don't forget to go through backups, old computers/disks. Even smartphones belonging to the company. I spent a lot of time last week going through 8 years of emails including attachments and contact lists since that counts as well.

Have fun

[K@th]

Remember that all electronic records count. Don't forget to go through backups, old computers/disks. Even smartphones belonging to the company. I spent a lot of time last week going through 8 years of emails including attachments and contact lists since that counts as well.

Have fun

It's hard enough to figure out all the people who've sent you an email or been in a CC of an email - that's a big task. Now, add to that task that you have to look up hundreds of people you don't know to see if they are still employed? Pfft. Talk about overkill.

Stupid.

[Speaker to Animals]

Just make like Hillary.

[Okeefenokee]

Just make like Hillary.

[TheReal_ND]

I like to use wet wipes for that reason now when I can't take a shower.

[Fife]

Things like this are why I'm glad I'm older than you all.

[Speaker to Animals]

What kind of animal skips the wet wipes???

[K@th]

During his lil' chat with Congress yesterday, Zuckerburg suggested we get a law similar to the GDRP.

[Otern]

During his lil' chat with Congress yesterday, Zuckerburg suggested we get a law similar to the GDRP.

Elaborate?

[Montegriffo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43726976

Thousands of people who arrived in the UK as children in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration face being threatened with deportation.

They have lived and worked in the UK for decades but many are now being told they are here illegally.

A new petition on the government's website calling on the Home Office to grant them an amnesty has attracted more than 23,000 signatures.

The Home Office said it would handle applications to stay "sensitively".The problem arises from the fact that under the 1971 Immigration Act, all Commonwealth citizens already living in the UK were given indefinite leave to remain - but the right to free movement between Commonwealth nations was ended from that date onwards.

However, the Home Office did not keep a record of those granted leave to remain or issue any paperwork confirming it, meaning it is difficult for the individuals to now prove they are in the UK legally.

The Migration Observatory at Oxford University estimates there are 500,000 people resident in the UK who were born in a Commonwealth country and arrived before 1971.