It was the night before Christmas … and, thanks to the Data Protection Fairy - and Patrick Wheeler - Santa Claus was about to grasp the true meaning of GDPR
It was not the usual preparation for the Christmas Eve worldwide tour. The elves were used to Santa getting a bit tetchy as the big day approached but this was way off the scale. Shouting, swearing, hurling things at his computer and now yelling: "The ‘unsubscribes' were bad enough, but now a blasted ‘subject access request'? Who do these kids think they're dealing with?" Yet, unknown to Santa, things were about to get a whole lot worse. Deep in the Antarctic ice a team of troll hackers had been infiltrating Santa's present database over the past few months. Guessing the password to the...
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