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GDPR – Meeting With The UK’s Small Business Minister To Request An Emergency Extension

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SUPER URGENT: We need your help, please! If your microbusiness is in desperate need of an extension to the #GDPR deadline to the end of this year, please email your MP, copying in Matt Hancock and Andrew Griffiths to tell them why you need it. TODAY if possible.

I just had a great meeting with Andrew, courtesy of Helen Whateley, MP, but despite the fact that I know hundreds of you have written to your MPs, they have not been passing the messages on to Andrew.
If Andrew gets a critical mass of messages this week, he will take action. Technically GDPR is Matt Hancock’s baby, but Andrew is our voice in Government.

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Even if you have already written to your MP, please do so again, letting them know how urgent this is. Ask them to call Andrew & Matt, because timing is now so tight.
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Be specific about why complying isn’t easy for you and how having the extension will help.
Their constituency emails (below) will reach them.

Once you have emailed, please tag your MP in a tweet, telling them you have emailed them to ask for a GDPR compliance deadline extension and that it’s super-urgent.

Please share this video.
Thank you!

Your MP: their constituency email address is easy to find via Google. It’s worth including your address in the email, because many won’t reply unless you can prove they are your MP.

Matt Hancock: Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sports
matt.hancock.mp@parliament.uk
Twitter @MattHancock

Andrew Griffiths: Minister for Small Business
andrew.griffiths.mp@parliament.uk
Twitter: @andrewgriffiths

GDPR: Why You DON’T Need To Delete Your List On 25th May – And 3 Practical Actions You Can Take Instead

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With just a few weeks left until the GDPR deadline, many microbusinesses are struggling to get their heads round the complexity of the legislation. It was brought in without simplifications, which means that kitchen table solopreneurs have to comply with the same complexity as multinationals like Amazon, who have had entire teams working on this for a year.

One of the biggest challenges is reconfirming our historical email lists. My research over the past two weeks showed that 10% is a typical reconfirmation rate – the UK’s smallest businesses are losing up to 90% of their subscribers.

But you don’t have to delete your list on 25th May. Here are three practical things you can do, instead:

Here’s the link to the ICO’s ‘Lawful Basis For Processing’ guidelines: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/lawful-basis-for-processing/

Here’s the link to Heather Burns’ practical webinar on how to get your business GDPR-ready: https://www.5minute.biz/gdpr/

If you want to write to your MP / Elizabeth Denham at the ICO, asking for a light touch extension for micro businesses until 31st December, I suggest you include:

* What you ARE doing to comply already
* Where, specifically, you are struggling to comply (e.g. reconfirmation / software providers not offering tick boxes for granularity of consent)
* How this could damage your business – the unintended consequences of this legislation

Please let me know via the comments how you get on with this.

x Clare

Clare Josa

Author of Dare to Dream Bigger

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