Thanks, I thought you read it here

jelo wrote: BTW: If you are a company and order businesscards for your people via a printingshop, you need to make a contract in compliance of GDPR. Printed businesscards are lowtech but still personal data is transmitted.

I wonder how someone can phone someone else and tell the name, jobposition and phonenumber without making a contract The businesscard-case seems to be shared by every gdpr-consultant.

I think, like always, there is also a lot of fear mongering. Unfortunately, like always, these rules and laws are created with the best intentions, but without actually knowing the real impact if followed by the word. There will now be a time with quite a lot of insecurity and uncertainty about what is really necessary and what not.
Because some of the implications are fairly absurd and create major hurdles for a lot of businesses, even if they were not targeted initially. And there will be people that take advantage of that. Just remember the "Abmahnwahn" when it came to "Impressumspflicht" (I figure both Jelo and Socius are german speakers, so you will know what I am talking about).

Now the GDPR thingy will even impact the data that NICs will provide in their Whois. I find that really problematic, because you can't find out who is responsible for a website anymore. But then, most shady subjects used some privacy service anyway.

holch wrote: Just remember the "Abmahnwahn" when it came to "Impressumspflicht" (I figure both Jelo and Socius are german speakers, so you will know what I am talking about

Socius linked to a Austrian website. "Abmahnungen" are a German thing. And Austrian politics have just changed law to weaken GDPR in Austria. www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXVI/AA/AA_00010/index.shtml

I guess most Austrians have heard about "Abmahnung" and are still laughing their head of. It might not have made it into the last valley, but Austrians that have to do with things "online" most probably have.