Re:The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR
by geofft on Saturday March 17, 2018 @01:44PM
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Which is a good thing.
If you phrase it as "large companies," then it sounds bad - but it forbids incompetent large companies too. It enforces that only companies that are competent enough to answer questions about data protection can be in the personal data space. If a small company is inherently incapable of answering those questions or handling the data properly, it shouldn't be allowed in that space.
It's like saying that there's a "government enforced monopoly" keeping newcomers out of the food business by not letting them just make things in their apartment and hand them to Uber Eats. It is a technically accurate description, but most people who believe that government has any legitimate functions at all see health inspections as a good thing.
If you phrase it as "large companies," then it sounds bad - but it forbids incompetent large companies too. It enforces that only companies that are competent enough to answer questions about data protection can be in the personal data space. If a small company is inherently incapable of answering those questions or handling the data properly, it shouldn't be allowed in that space.
It's like saying that there's a "government enforced monopoly" keeping newcomers out of the food business by not letting them just make things in their apartment and hand them to Uber Eats. It is a technically accurate description, but most people who believe that government has any legitimate functions at all see health inspections as a good thing.