Re: @Loyal Commenter
@Loyal Commenter
"GDPR is only a hoop to jump through if you were going to collect personal data, without a good reason to do so."
You should have stopped where the comma is- "GDPR is only a hoop to jump through if you were going to collect personal data". That is when you need to jump through this hoop. Which requires knowing what is considered personal data. If you want a laugh consolidate this (https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/the-gdpr-what-exactly-is-personal-data)-
That’s a concern, because if organisations don’t meet their compliance requirements, they risk data breaches and disciplinary action. and The issue is that the Regulation doesn’t provide a definitive list of what is or isn’t personal data. It is up to organisations to correctly interpret the GDPR’s definition:
But what it does do is provide a job! The "dedicated data protection professional". How many school kids writing an app in their bedroom have those?
"If you need to collect such data"
What data? Apparently context is everything, you must figure out if the data needs to comply but even personal data may or may not be 'such' data. Make sure to check with your "dedicated data protection professional".
"Most apps don't need to collect personal data at all, so no hoop."
I assume you mean apps in existence? Because we dont know what apps dont exist due to this extra hoop. We cant know. How can we know what we dont have?
"If they did start asking for such information, or permissions that they don't obviously need, it's a big old red flag."
As in you would block giving them permission and wouldnt provide the information they asked for? Or as a lot of us did (and do) with things like facebook... we lie. Sounds self solving doesnt it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
