Good, because that's how long it took me to read through all
the detail on the Information Commissioner's web site about the
new EU General Data Protection Regulation. Eighteen pages of
handwritten notes later and I think I have got the measure of how
much work might be involved in getting ready to comply.
If you reached the end of the first paragraph without thinking
'Ah, but what about Brexit?', well done. I genuinely
don't think though that Brexit will have a significant impact
on the need to comply.
Firstly, compliance will be required if you offer goods or
services to EU residents. Granted this might be a smaller
population for some businesses if the UK is not in the EU but in
reality having separate data protection regimes for EU and non-EU
residents won't be very business efficient. Secondly, if
an EU data controller wants to send you data, compliance will be
expected in order to send you that data.
