[db-wg] Fwd: proposal: new attribute 'geofeed:

Randy Bush via db-wg wrote on 10/01/2021 23:36:
> as today's legal authority, can you tell me if gdpr applies to all parts
> of the british isles?  asking for a friend.

If you're referring to the UK, the EU GDPR no longer applies there, at 
least not since our close colleagues left the EU. They still use the UK 
Data Protection Act 2018, which is based on the EU GDPR though, and 
which provides full equivalence.

The EU GDPR does apply to the Republic of Ireland (which remains part of 
the EU), but not Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.

UK post codes only identify the area where someone lives, so cannot be 
used to identify individuals, and therefore would be unlikely to be 
covered by the UK Data Protection Act 2018.  OTOH, each RoI postcode 
identifies an exact building, so there would be a case that there were 
GDPR implications there.

Nick