Petition Stop the EU General Data Protection Regulation ruining UK Small Business

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The European Commission Vice President is planning to cripple the UK Direct Marketing industry.
Some of the proposed changes which will seriously affect SME’s include:

A much higher standard of consent
Abolishment of Subject Access Request Fees
Mandatory appointment of a Data Protection Officer
More severe fines and penalties for non-compliance
Tracking of IP addresses banned
Increase red tape for business

We want to the Government to look into these proposed changes and request more time to be spent considering the devastating effect on UK small business.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

74 signatures

10,000

Date closed 27 November 2014
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