Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has decided to delete its email database. The pub chain sent an email last week to members of its customer database saying that it would no longer be sending out newsletters, and would be permanently deleting their records. The company is presumably still nursing something of a hangover after discovering in late 2015 that it had suffered a data breach involving the personal details of some 656,723 customers. With tougher data protection regulations coming into force in May 2018 in the form of GDPR, it may be a canny move to securely wipe such information sooner than later.”]
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