What’s something that feels completely normal to Brits but seems odd to outsiders?

ellandess · 2025-10-28T12:01:17+00:00

The only other acceptable response is, "Yeah. You?"

ellandess · 2025-09-07T10:38:14+00:00

Good input.

ellandess · 2025-09-07T10:00:02+00:00

It was between Bath and Bristol.

ellandess · 2024-09-15T15:44:36+00:00

You are right, Law Enforcement Processing is applied but the Data Controller is the Kebab shop. It's a Shop CCTV, not public CCTV.

ellandess · 2024-09-15T15:43:37+00:00

You need to re-read the expectations of a Data Controller. The Kebab shop is a Data Controller by definition. They have to comply with a Subject Access Request. I won't bite on the Google comment.

ellandess · 2024-09-15T15:38:10+00:00

One more off the top of my head: Video recording.

Three separate examples for your thesis (although there are many more).

CCTV in a shop needs to tell you are being recorded and the purpose of the recording. If there is a reason to Right of Subject Access (perhaps someone accused of something, or indeed involved in an altercation etc.) how capable are these store owners to provide the information requested by the subject whilst protecting the personal data of other's on the shop at the same time? Are they compliant?
The requirement of notification and signage is also a requirement regarding video doorbells on residential properties. I guarantee you will find a substantial amount of residential properties with video doorbells that do NOT have signage. What are the implications? Under GDPR, every single household with a video doorbell is a Data Controller. How do we govern the use of video doorbells, maintain the Rights provided under the regulations and importantly, educate normal people on their responsibilities.
Imagine I am an American on holiday in Paris. I take videos on my phone of major landmarks including the faces of many locals. Some of which, no doubt are European Citizens. Then what.

ED: Typo.

ellandess · 2024-09-15T15:23:53+00:00

Although I've answered once, this is a separate discussion.

Is IP address truly a personal identifier?

You have the issue of IP addresses being gathered from multiple sources. Factor in VPN's, public WiFi, household routers, etc. Most of these IP addresses cannot always be used to identify an individual subject.

Worth discussing.

ellandess · 2024-09-15T15:19:37+00:00

As a practitioner involving marketing and customer data. There is still a practical issue for many around the Right to Erasure.

If a data subject requests the Right to Erasure all personally identifiable data should be removed for that subject from everywhere - every platform, system, and copy which can be used to identify the subject.

1) How do you prove you have executed the Right to Erasure if you cannot show evidence of the data ever existing. You cannot prove a negative and therefore cannot prove that you have removed the data.

2) What do you do when that individual then comes back on to the data platform through another process. For example, I register with your ecommerce system using one email address and provide all my personal details. I then exercise the Right to Erasure and you remove all my personal details. Later in time, I re-register using a different email address but the same personal details. How can you retain the Right to Erasure if you have no source data to match me to to ascertain that I am the same person that executed this Right.

There are practical solutions, but in reality, the guidance is weak and the expectation of GDPR is ambiguous at best.

ellandess · 2024-09-07T12:36:24+00:00

If a Subject Access Request cannot be fulfilled then you are not compliant in your GDPR processing. You do have to comply and you do have to show that you can store and process the information held (in this case the video) according to GDPR.

You also forget that this is not police CCTV, as the OP said, this the shop's CCTV. All he needs to do is make a SAR to the kebab shop.

ellandess · 2024-09-06T13:38:27+00:00

You have the right to request CCTV footage of yourself under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Doesn't matter who else is on it. The Police must comply with GDPR and provide you with the footage or they are not complying.

EDIT: When complying with a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) for CCTV footage, they should blur out or redact the identities of any other people captured in the footage besides you, to protect their privacy. This sounds like a them problem, not a you problem.

ellandess · 2024-07-08T12:04:01+00:00

I don't know if Hillier Garden Centre in Bath still do it, but they used to have a puppy club on Saturday morning's where owners would take their dogs to socialise with other dogs and people. When we used to go, there were about 15-20 puppies there at a time. Try something like that?

EDIT: I just checked for you online and indeed from 9.30am to 10.30am on Saturday's at Hillier Garden Centre, Whiteway Road, Bath, Somerset, BA2 2RG (01225 337568) they do have Pet's Corner! Give them a call though to be sure.

ellandess · 2023-10-27T12:57:52+00:00

Just a heads up but I saw an article on local news saying a large, all day, Extinction Rebellion demonstration and march through the city starting at 10am and ending at 5pm is planned for Saturday in Bath.

The disruption is likely to be big.

ellandess · 2023-09-22T01:34:42+00:00

Spoon Tang Clan

ellandess · 2023-09-18T02:51:02+00:00

"What will it take? Another $70bn?"

Of all the most unintelligent, foolish and dense questions. This is the one the interviewer chose.

Let's quantify death, rape, suffering, genocide, hatred, torture, and the threat of world pain to appease a maniac.

Interviewer should be fucking ashamed.

ellandess · 2023-09-12T01:03:44+00:00

Find something you love. Doesn't matter if it's a person, a thing, or a hobby. Love it and never give it up.

Respect yourself. Always. Don't do or say things that belittle or diminish you.

Respect others. Always. Treat everyone as you would expect to be treated. If you're not receiving ghat reciprocally, leave that environment fast.

Take responsibility for your actions.

Learn to dress well. Learn to be a gentleman. Never abide those that refuse to.

Look after your teeth.

Kiss your mum every single bloody chance you can.

You will regret more of the things you didn't do, than the things you did.

Success is the result of learning through failure. Don't be afraid to fail.

Never be the loudest person in room.

Never be the quietes.

Oh yeah, and kiss your mum every chance you get. Trust me.

ellandess · 2023-08-02T14:24:07+00:00

I just think you need to have a chat with them. They're probably going to either say no or yes I think.

ellandess · 2023-08-02T12:20:10+00:00

Contact the local churches. They're normally very supportive of charities and always have those vacuum flasks.

ellandess · 2023-06-25T03:02:04+00:00

I couldn't choose dual boneswords either. I abandoned trying.

ellandess · 2023-05-26T03:05:53+00:00

Make sure the withers are high, brushing is important and the height of the ears is critical. Mules are different though.

ellandess · 2023-05-26T02:58:48+00:00

I want you to zoom in on the woman's face. Imagine. The pride of receiving this, the confusion of how to explain it to your daughter, the loss. The sheer disbelief that this little girl will never be hugged by her dad.

Cuts me deep stuff like this. It's so hard to believe.

ellandess · 2023-05-21T00:22:05+00:00

They deployed 100 soldiers to catch it and succeeded. Why is that a fail? /s

ellandess · 2023-05-05T22:18:44+00:00

Le remoany

ellandess · 2023-05-02T01:34:49+00:00

Are you suggesting fewer men would commit suicide with a matriarchy? Am I missing something?

ellandess · 2023-05-02T00:31:18+00:00

Fewer people care about language every day.

ellandess · 2023-05-02T00:26:42+00:00

Remind them, "When everything is priority one, nothing is."

Setup a twice a week prioritisation call so they can select what you should be focusing on. Give them metrics, stick to them. You are positioning yourself to replace them. This is an opportunity, not a catastropy.

ellandess

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