[GNC] GDPR and data held in GnuCash

[Colin Law]

I found this a useful link [1] along with the rest of that website.
The GDPRs apply to businesses and also to non-profits such as clubs.
As I understand it all organisations have to have a Privacy Policy and
need to get explicit agreement from all those they hold personal data
on in order to keep their data.

However I believe that any data that is required for 'contractual'
reasons is not covered.  When one sells anything there is an implicit
(or explicit) contract so I assume (though I have no qualifications in
this area) that customer data required for invoices and so on would
not be covered.  However if I were a business with customer data I
would be asking my legal guy about this.

Colin

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/resources-and-support/data-protection-self-assessment/

On 10 April 2018 at 12:51, Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.co.uk> wrote:
> Is everyone aware of the impact of GDPR on their customers/vendors data stored within GnuCash?  I admit I've only just become aware of it and am still puzzled as what I should do to be compliant.
>
> It seems I may have to either delete all my customer data or "repermission" my existing customers and vendors in order to hold any data about them. I'm not sure how GnuCash will behave if I delete customer data, given that I can't do that via GnuCash and will have to "manually" edit my database (or XML file in my case). I should probably file an enhancement request to add a delete customer facility to GnuCash.
>
> It may be only applicable if you hold data for the purposes of mailing list marketing.
>
> There may be issues if you backup or store your GnuCash data "in the cloud" as this probably means moving data to servers based outside of the EU. In which case it will have to be encrypted before transmission. I guess that applies for server storage inside the EU too. Business users storing unencrypted data in the "cloud" would fall foul of the regulations.
>
> There's a Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
>
> and there's https://www.eugdpr.org/
>
>
> Just a few discussion points.
> Mike Evans
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