To think I have not broken GDPR?!

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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!

The solicitor on the opposing side once sent me a document that helped me force a very generous settlement. THAT was a fuck-up. Maureen needs to get out more.

Another line for your email...

"Looks like I've got myself in hot water here."

"I've bean very silly."

Hope the ICO don't get involved. It'll Costa fortune. Just don't mocha for it.

I took my GDPR refresher course today and I can safely say you have not broken any GDPR rules

If you'd taken the GDPR refreshments course instead it might have been covered.

Do me a favour please email me the coffee machine instructions 😆😆 I can't work mine for the live of me. It's always deciding not to work during busy service times and I'm sick of it!! Cc in Maureen though just incase.

Maureen just needs to learn to filter her thoughts before firing off emails. Take her to the cafetiere for a quiet chat. Tell her people prefer mellow birds to people who get fired up in an instant.

Unless you have a very unusual coffee machine that combines as a printer for confidential documents, then no! Perhaps Maureen 1 gets lots of messages intended for Maureen 2, and is a bit worried that if people are getting each other's messages, it might end up as something confidential being transmitted.

If you'd taken the GDPR refreshments course instead it might have been covered
Ha! That's good @user1480880826

You're not doing unsolicited marketing and you have haven't sent her Maureen no.1's details so I think it's fine. People spread so much misinformation about GDPR, check out the #GDPRubbish hashtag.

Is Maureen 2 also within your organisation? Just because for everyone saying it's not a breach of GDPR if it doesn't contain any personal details...GDPR also prevents you from emailing people who haven't opted in to receiving emails from you. Of course that vastly depends on how you got her email address and who she is. Can't imagine it actually applies.

reply with the large lol it deserves

The GDPR is about personal data processing, so unless the coffee machine demands you stop its data being processed, I reckon you're in the clear.

Maureen needs to get some training.

Perhaps she means that you have used her personal information (her email address) for a purpose that she hasn't given you permission for? Isn't there a thing under GDPR where you can only use personal information / contact details for specific purposes?

I'm grasping at straws. I don't know anything about GDPR really, I'm just trying to see where she might be coming from

Either way, it sounds like a massive overreaction on Maureen's part.

Maybe she thinks it was a passive aggressive way of telling her it's her turn to make the coffee

Maybe she thinks it was a passive aggressive way of telling her it's her turn to make the coffee

She works in head office, I don't.

I doubt very much that you have revealed any confidential info about people, unless you have listed a whole load of people for criticism.

I emailed the customer service centre of a large corporation an outline of a toddler workshop I’m running on Friday, by mistake.

Is it a breach of GDPR that they now know how to deliver 45 mins of The Elves and the Shoemaker complete with parachute work and bubbles?

I love the puns on here. And the common sense. See too many posters who believe telling someone else your surname is a breach of gdpr and you should log it with hr!

Your initials aren't GDPR are they? In which case her sentence may have just been missing a t and a comma

Oh I've just thought, there wasn't a list of people's usual coffee orders was there? I'd be mortified if my colleagues knew I have black coffee, no sugar.
Or who owes what to the coffee fund, and whose turn to buy milk? Financial info!

You haven't sent her any information about someone else. So no.

Unlike us getting sent the wrong child's information from the LEA...