To think I have not broken GDPR?!

[cleanisbliss]

I accidentally sent an email to the wrong, let's call her, Maureen.

The incorrect Maureen emailed back in a flurry, saying "Was this meant for me?! It's not grea GDPR"

She wasn't joking. She isn't the type to 'joke'.

AIBU to think this is ridiculous?

The email was a document about... hold onto your seats... How to work the coffee machine!

Hilarious!! GDPR monkeys at their finest hour - there's bound to be a problem somewhere 😆

I think, this time you're fine - put the phone to your solicitor down and get on with your evening 🤪

It may have been hard to figure out the 'grea' since GDPR isn't a verb. If she'd written 'great GDPRing', it may have been clearer.

Ah it’s because you used the name Maureen in the email.

But not that Maureen, another one.

So you’ve given Maureen Maureen’s personal details I.e. first name.

HTH

I received your espresso of dissatisfaction and feel like a right mug.

How does Maureen know the email wasn't intended for her in the first place?

Is she just angry because now she knows that there's a secret coffee machine that she doesn't get to use?

She apparently feels it is grounds for dismissal.

Surely she’s joking?

Oh, it would be wonderful to send a grovelly reply with all the puns in it. Please do it, OP.

realised too latte
espresso of dissatisfaction
feel like a right mug

However, I think you perhaps got confused between GDPR and the GBPR (General Beverage Protection Regulation). Easily done.

Dear Maureen
Thank you for your email highlighting that you had accidentally recieved intimate details of C Machine which I sent in error. The document did indeed outline details of C Machine, including location, role in the company, and identifying information including diagrams and photo.
However, and to allay your somewhat oddly phrased concern, C Machine, whilst essential to the smooth running of the team, is not a person under the GDPR regulations and so you need not worry about this information being shared with you. In fact, now that you do have it, I'd love a flat white? Thank you, kind regards,
Cleanisbliss

At my work sending an email to the wrong person is a internal notifiable action.

Ie I have to inform our data manage that an email has been sent to the wrong person.

Depending on the contents of the email it could easily be something that the ICO and GDPR would be interested in.

Our internal notifiable action is to determine why we need to refer ourselves to the ICO or not.

Tell her you just got lost in the daily grind.

Not in your case of course! Coffee

GDPR deals with the personal information of living individuals. Tell her (in a phrase favoured by MN moderators) to go well

I do remember from my GDPR training that emailing the wrong person in error is a breach of GDPR...when the email contains personal/sensitive information about someone else. I think you're safe with the coffee machine info!

Everybody's an "expert" in GDPR.

You did not cause a data breach. You have permission to have Maureen-the-Po-faced-Lizard's email address. No GDPR problem. Re-send the email with the ICO guidance notes (several hundred pages) attached instead 😉

I wouldn't worry. I emailed a client an instruction letter today, and sent him one for Mr Smith's matter when he is Mr Jones. It was a mistake, human error, not a breach of anything!

Well actually that potentially is quite a serious GDPR breach. It depends what the content of the letter was of course.

Loving the puns, btw.

It's not great GDPR.

Why are you wasting time considering the opinion of someone who thinks to GDPR is a verb.

That would be using it as a noun, wouldn't it? Referring GDPR as a thing?

I wouldn't worry. I emailed a client an instruction letter today, and sent him one for Mr Smith's matter when he is Mr Jones. It was a mistake, human error, not a breach of anything!

Yep, I was thinking that - if the instruction letter includes Mr Smith's personal information, like name and address for example, that is in fact a notifiable breach.

If you'd said, Maureen, here's the instructions for the coffee machine which, on your salary of £180000 per annum, paid into 30-12-21 12345677, forms part of your contract but due to your impending major abdominal surgery discussed with HR on 18th May you now can't use....
You might have data protection issues

But storing the work email of a colleague definitely comes under legitimate interest. She's a bloody nuisance! Silly arse!

You know what even if you did send someone’s personal information once the commissioner wouldn’t bloody care, they’d say have you learned your lesson and have you/will you do it again. You say no it was a solitary mistake and everyone goes about their day. Honestly like, people have gone way over the top with this shit

Tell her she is quite right and is she acting in the role of supporter for the coffee machine (whose intimate information has been inappropriately shared) or is she the union rep, you aren’t quite clear.

Why are you wasting time considering the opinion of someone who thinks to GDPR is a verb.

She didn't use it as a verb.
It's not great GDPR. uses GDPR as a noun.

Is she just angry because now she knows that there's a secret coffee machine that she doesn't get to use?

No, she now knows how to use it, but doesn't know where it is!

One of my sons clients wives sent him an e-mail in error it was meant for her husband, it was a threat of divorce, she knew he was playing around ultimatum e-mail. He just deleted it, she never said a word to him.