15/02/2018
CML2 is currently working on on a new GDPR Compliance Publishing Framework called iPlyWizard.
For those of you who do not understand what GDPR stands for the, it's the 'General Data Protection Regulation,' which is a a new set of website privacy and data collection rules and a long overdue update to everybody’s current Web Privacy Policy.
On the surface this sounds… so what?
However, EVERY company in the UK and Europe regardless of size, turnover or Brexit, must comply with these new rules, this being a Brussels directive made up of 200 pages of legislation, 99 Articles and 173 Recitals ‘specific’ to each company, not a general policy before the May 25th deadline, requiring a lawyer’s ratification and sign off.
Failure to do this opens you up to a €20 million Euro fine or 4% of Global Turnover from the Information Commissioners Office, ICO – (not Initial Coin Offering) in London, where 300 newly appointed government operatives have the right to turn up on the door step of the Hub and demand access to its servers or any ISP we collectively or individually use, their GDPR compliance or the Hub's not covering us.
These Officers have the power to enter and demand to speak to (as required by the Articles) a duly appointed Compliance Officer or Data Operative who has been trained to not only understand the legislation, but understand the new rights of customers and the legal basis by which we store their data, as well as the option to have any profile deleted, and to opt-out of any automatic monitoring or data storage process (as favoured by FaceBook, Amazon and Google – being the reason why this legislation was originally created) that may place any B2B or B2C customer under a hidden ‘legal obligation’ of which they may not be unaware infringing the personal rights.
Probably the most succinct description I can give it and an ever increasingly hot topic on LinkedIn and Instagram.
I think we can get that price of then training down if people in the Hub understand that this is probably the biggest shake up to privacy and data storage rules in 20 years and the risk that they take by not being compliant by the deadline.
Cheers.
