Ian Adams said:
Alistair approached the ICO with a loaded question and the answer that has been posted back is by no means definitive.
I approached them, not so I can "wave my nethers about" as you might like to put it, but because someone had raised it, and rather than splurge on in a never ending debate, I wanted clarification.
I'm ambivalent about receiving the newsletter. If it had been sent out in the first place without it being mentioned on here and therefore searchable by anyone wishing to search for terms "GDPR", "ICO" and other such "bull". Then the question would never have been asked.
Rather than quietly getting on with "making the BCA" better, whoever it was that mentioned it in the first place has done exactly the opposite, I don't know who it was, and frankly I couldn't care less.
If you want me to seek some "better" clarification from the ICO then I can escalate it.
Or you could send a link to the online newsletters round to all BCA clubs to put a link on their website, or a clickable link (like an amazon cart) to sign up to the Newsletter.
The last thing I want to hear of from a BCA meeting is problems or friction, I (personally) want to only hear good things about it [which is presumably the whole point in sending the newsletter out in the first place]. but sadly it seems that while "making it better" some seem to want to point out the flaws in it to start with.
Its like walking into a shop taking a loaf of bread to the counter and saying I bought bread from you a month ago and it went off in three days. Theres nothing they can do about it, so why bring it up.