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nobody realized how much big of a deal GDPR is going to be. if you digitized your partner business card, if you store their number on your phone etc that's pers
by LoSboccacc 9y ago
nobody realized how much big of a deal GDPR is going to be. if you digitized your partner business card, if you store their number on your phone etc that's personal data and that all need to be renegotiated and you need a database to hold track of their informed consent.
a little exaggerated for fun here https://www.brandexpublishing.co.uk/the-new-procedure-for-exchanging-business-cards-under-gdpr/ https://www.brandexpublishing.co.uk/the-new-procedure-for-ex...
- geofft 9y agoThat article brings up good points about synchronizing data. I intentionally do not keep my friends' names in my contacts (I primarily use recent numbers, and I started storing a few anonymous names when Signal required use of actual contact entries) because I do not want my friends' data to be sent to whatever random service I might have installed. Given the whole Cambridge Analytica thing this seems good.
- jsty 9y agoYou don't even have to digitise the information, if you were to store your business cards in a structured filing system they would be under the GDPR too [1] [1] See definition of personal data: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/key-definitions/ https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
- vageli 9y agoI wonder what that means for Rolodexes.