Great Western Coffee Shop

The aim of the GDPR is to protect all EU citizens from privacy and data breaches in an increasingly data-driven world that is vastly different from the time in which the 1995 directive was established. Although the key principles of data privacy still hold true to the previous directive, many changes have been proposed to the regulatory policies; the key points of the GDPR as well as information on the impacts it will have on business can be found below.

Increased Territorial Scope (extra-territorial applicability)
Arguably the biggest change to the regulatory landscape of data privacy comes with the extended jurisdiction of the GDPR, as it applies to all companies processing the personal data of data subjects residing in the Union, regardless of the company’s location. Previously, territorial applicability of the directive was ambiguous and referred to data process 'in context of an establishment'. This topic has arisen in a number of high profile court cases. GPDR makes its applicability very clear - it will apply to the processing of personal data by controllers and processors in the EU, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the EU or not. The GDPR will also apply to the processing of personal data of data subjects in the EU by a controller or processor not established in the EU, where the activities relate to: offering goods or services to EU citizens (irrespective of whether payment is required) and the monitoring of behaviour that takes place within the EU. Non-Eu businesses processing the data of EU citizens will also have to appoint a representative in the EU.

Penalties
Under GDPR organizations in breach of GDPR can be fined up to 4% of annual global turnover or €20 Million (whichever is greater). This is the maximum fine that can be imposed for the most serious infringements e.g.not having sufficient customer consent to process data or violating the core of Privacy by Design concepts. There is a tiered approach to fines e.g. a company can be fined 2% for not having their records in order (article 28), not notifying the supervising authority and data subject about a breach or not conducting impact assessment. It is important to note that these rules apply to both controllers and processors -- meaning 'clouds' will not be exempt from GDPR enforcement.

Consent
The conditions for consent have been strengthened, and companies will no longer be able to use long illegible terms and conditions full of legalese, as the request for consent must be given in an intelligible and easily accessible form, with the purpose for data processing attached to that consent. Consent must be clear and distinguishable from other matters and provided in an intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language. It must be as easy to withdraw consent as it is to give it.​

Data Subject Rights

Breach Notification
Under the GDPR, breach notification will become mandatory in all member states where a data breach is likely to “result in a risk for the rights and freedoms of individuals”. This must be done within 72 hours of first having become aware of the breach. Data processors will also be required to notify their customers, the controllers, “without undue delay” after first becoming aware of a data breach.

Right to Access
Part of the expanded rights of data subjects outlined by the GDPR is the right for data subjects to obtain from the data controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning them is being processed, where and for what purpose. Further, the controller shall provide a copy of the personal data, free of charge, in an electronic format. This change is a dramatic shift to data transparency and empowerment of data subjects.

Right to be Forgotten
Also known as Data Erasure, the right to be forgotten entitles the data subject to have the data controller erase his/her personal data, cease further dissemination of the data, and potentially have third parties halt processing of the data. The conditions for erasure, as outlined in article 17, include the data no longer being relevant to original purposes for processing, or a data subjects withdrawing consent. It should also be noted that this right requires controllers to compare the subjects' rights to "the public interest in the availability of the data" when considering such requests.

Data Portability
GDPR introduces data portability - the right for a data subject to receive the personal data concerning them, which they have previously provided in a 'commonly use and machine readable format' and have the right to transmit that data to another controller.

Privacy by Design
Privacy by design as a concept has existed for years now, but it is only just becoming part of a legal requirement with the GDPR. At it’s core, privacy by design calls for the inclusion of data protection from the onset of the designing of systems, rather than an addition. More specifically - 'The controller shall..implement appropriate technical and organisational measures..in an effective way.. in order to meet the requirements of this Regulation and protect the rights of data subjects'. Article 23 calls for controllers to hold and process only the data absolutely necessary for the completion of its duties (data minimisation), as well as limiting the access to personal data to those needing to act out the processing.

Data Protection Officers
Currently, controllers are required to notify their data processing activities with local DPAs, which, for multinationals, can be a bureaucratic nightmare with most Member States having different notification requirements. Under GDPR it will not be necessary to submit notifications / registrations to each local DPA of data processing activities, nor will it be a requirement to notify / obtain approval for transfers based on the Model Contract Clauses (MCCs). Instead, there will be internal record keeping requirements, as further explained below, and DPO appointment will be mandatory only for those controllers and processors whose core activities consist of processing operations which require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale or of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences. Importantly, the DPO:
* Must be appointed on the basis of professional qualities and, in particular, expert knowledge on data protection law and practices
* May be a staff member or an external service provider
* Contact details must be provided to the relevant DPA
* Must be provided with appropriate resources to carry out their tasks and maintain their expert knowledge
* Must report directly to the highest level of management
* Must not carry out any other tasks that could results in a conflict of interest.

Is the Coffee Shop registered with the ICO under its own name or under Well House Consultants?

I shall be emailing every signed up member (i.e. everyone who has taken action to agree to our terms and conditions) to confirm the membership here which they signed up for, and provide them with a link to the terms and conditions and how they were updated in 2008, 2012 and 2013 - see http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=1761.0 . That email will confirm that I believe us to be GDPR compliant, and remind the of our contact details (and our presence) if they haven't been here for a while.

Dear Great Western Coffee Shop member,

I am writing to all members of "The Coffee Shop" to update each of you on how we and your membership are effected by the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).  In a nutshell, the regulation requires an active signup, a clear statement of what personal data we hold and what we do with it, access for you to that data, and that we delete that personal data on request.

Since its foundation, this forum has required members to agree to our terms and conditions that tell you what we do with your data. You can read this at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=1761.0 if you want to check back on that.  When you sign in, your data is available to you to read and maintain via the PROFILE tab.  Should you wish to withdraw your agreement to our terms and conditions, or cease to be a member for any other reason, please do let me or one of the other administrators know and we will delete your personal details.   You will still be able to read the forum as a guest, but will no longer have access to the personal message system, nor to the member-only boards such as "Frequent Posters".

Unusually in the current flood of GDPR sign up requests, this email does not require your active response, as that's something we have from when you joined us.  Please do feel free to ask any questions ... personally by reply to this email if you like, but better (if you thinks others may have the same query) in reply to http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=19637.0

The Coffee Shop was set up over a decade ago now, and has a huge knowledge base of public information available.  The name of the train operator in the area we're concerned with with "First Great Western" in those days, but that has changed to Great Western Railway. With thousands of links to the old name, our primary domain remains at www.firstgreatwestern.info, but the domain gwr.passenger.chat now also links to our forum, allowing a currently appropriate URL to be advertised. It is the intention of the admin and moderator team to continue to operate the forum under these URLs through the current First Group tenure of the Great Western short term potential direct awards over the coming years, with a further review / consideration at te point that a new franchise for a period of 7 to 10 years commences - on current plans, that's most likely to be in 2022 or 2024, though we have no crystal ball. Whatever the future brings, the database of posts and the active friendships built would be of far too much value to loose, and I would very much hope to find a continuity.

This forum is made by its members; thank you for being a member, and for your contributions, and long may they continue.

Graham

Thanks, gmail.com had set it as spam.

Graham, Not received at my non-gmail but still valid email. Will investigate the spam folder tomorrow (not easily visible since a recent change of email server at work).

regards

Ian

Not received mine either, don't use g-mail, checked my spam too, nothing, I use McAfee LiveSafe.

For the record I have received nothing.

I send out a couple of weekly newsletters and from experience I find btinternet, Hotmail and gmail have spates of blocking them.  The frustrating thing is neither I, as sender, nor the intended recipient gets any notification to say it has been trapped so apart from having no way of knowing they haven't made it through, there is no possibility of learning why and tweaking future messages.

I've had loads of "Topic reply" messages from you but, despite carefully checking everywhere, not this GDPR one. My mail hosting isn't on one of those big global systems listed above either, and while it's currently set to be too keen to apply the "spam" label I can still see those anyway.

I have only just caught up on this thread and have not received an email. Looking at when it was likely sent out my logs from then will have expired so I cannot see if it was rejected for any reason by my MX host.

Not sure what happened to the outgoing emails - a lot got through but it looks like a lot didn't, and as it's "no action required" we're not re-sending.   A couple of folks have emailed to ask for their accounts to be removes, and others have confirmed receipt, so there's quite a lot in both camps.

Your alter ego perhaps  ;D ;D ;D

I too was wondering what happened to my email. I've just found it in my Spam folder.