Re: Will this current government's blatant corruption ever cease?
"As for GDPR what I would like to see is exemptions for smaller businesses and organisations that have customer data for internal use. Facebook and Google may need strict regulation but a business with a few thousand customers should not need to worry about GDPR, nor should a parish church maintaining a contact list of its congregation."
Wrong. Whilst the impact of a single large organisation may be detrimental to personal privacy the impact of a very large number of small organisations is also likely to be detrimental ("death by a thousand cuts") to an individual.
Also define "internal use" - I would expect that most "smaller businesses and organisations" are using the likes of Microsoft (Office 365, Azure), Google (Gmail, Google Cloud), Amazon (AWS), etc to provide their IT services, it is unlikely to be solely stored on their own computer(s).
These "smaller businesses and organisations" are the only entities that can decide what personal data to keep, how long for, etc (their IT providers cannot) and so that is why they are subject to GDPR, they are the Data Controllers of the personal data.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
