Gdpr
To keep it simple, Dashcams are not affected, You can stop reading now if that's all you want to know!!!
they do not hold private information. The registration plate is not a piece if personally identifiable information in itself. The DVLA database that contains you name and address associated with the registration is and anyone who uses that info (I.e the parking Nazi's who apply for your details via an ANPR camera). So the DVLA and the parking Nazi's, the repo men etc who hold your reg AND you personal details have to work under GDPR.
It applies to all businesses, regardless of the number of employees, the 250 employee limit just means you have to have a data protection officer.
The rules have been in place for years under the data protection act 1988. All this does is make the rules clearer and the fines bigger as it has become more and more of a problem. Not a week goes by without a data "breach" meaning someone, somehere stole whole bunch of personal information (name, address, credit card no, date of birth etc).
So if you are a small business and are bamboozled by this. Keep it simple, look at all your files, records etc and anything you have a record of credit card nos or other personal information (eg which sex toy they ordered and where it went) then you probably need to look at deleting some of that data. You will still need to keep records for your business but 1) encrypt it 2) separate it (so names and addresses separate from orders).
Use only as you need and don't use it outside it's core purpose (eg fullfilig an order or forum login), don't trade the info, delete when you don't need it.
There is plenty help on the information commissioners office (ICO.gov.uk) site to help. It's there to protect us, the normal people, from the likes of facebook. I could rant long about facebook and Cambridge Analytical (CA) (I do analytics as part of my job, I have more than an passing interest in machine learning). Suffice to say if Facebook gave all it's data, wittingly or (nudge nudge) unwittingly to CA after May 25th this year they would both be in contravention of several key elements (including post processing information, drawing additional insights from passive data (eg profiling)), Just to give you some idea, the size of the fine that FB would face would be so big, even zuck couldn't pay it and would probably mean FB pulling out of the UK. So that is how big the teeth of the ICO have now and how big a fubar FB's was. For normal people and small business, it's nothing to fear, treat customers personal information a bit like cash. Don't wave it around, don't tell people how much you have on you and keep it in secure, safe place. Simples
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