Reply to post: Re: Backups

Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database

DavCrav

Re: Backups

"GDPR has specific exemptions for law enforcement."

Certainly you don't need consent (obviously) to process PII, but I thought they still couldn't do whatever they fancied, and indeed they were deleting this information off the PNC database because of GDPR (maybe it's a slightly different law then?).

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