« Reply #52 on: Saturday 04 July 20 17:16 BST (UK) »
For 'bureaucratic hoops' read 'government incompetence'.
No Greensleeves, for 'bureaucratic hoops' read "Legislation to govern the processing of data and the protection of privacy, implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (commonly known as GDPR) and otherwise known as Regulation (EU) 2016/679"
And yes, the "EU" bit does mean it is a Regulation made by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.
TL;DR - The EU made a law to protect personal data and privacy and the resulting "bureaucratic hoops" have to be jumped through.
You'd think the Mayor of Leicester would be familiar with GDPR and its origins, rather than dismissing it as 'bureaucratic hoops'.
The UK did have its own Data Protection Act of 1988, was developed to control how personal or customer information is used by organisations or government bodies. which people will note was during the "!Common Market" era prior to PM Major signing the Maastricht Treaty that established the European Union.
I was a widow running a company when a government copy of the 1999 Data Protection Act dropped through the letter box. What worried me at first reading through it was that I planned to sell up but this Act stated I couldn't give out, or sell, any data I had listed, unless requested by the Police Force. Thank goodness I still had the Roladex wsith all the information on the cards :-) Please don't all write in to tell me otherwise - as I did what teachers instructed pupils to do - I re-read the documents again :-)
Apparently the loopholes have been fixed and regulations are stricter now:- Data Protection Act 1998. ... It was superseded by the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) on 23 May 2018. The DPA 2018 supplements the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect on 25 May 2018. The GDPR regulates the collection, storage, and use of personal data significantly more strictly.
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