A pet owner says the EU's GDPR rules protected someone who wanted to keep her beloved pet - forcing her to call in the police. Two-year-old Fred vanished from his owner’s home on August 9 last year.
His distraught owner Beryl Edwards, 65, searched the neighbourhood for her pet but there was no sign of the ginger-and-white Tom cat. The retired administrator had almost given up hope of seeing Fred again until she received an email from pet microchip company Identibase last Thursday.
They said Fred was now living with someone who wanted to keep him as their pet so she needed to consent to a change of ownership on the microchip. Stunned Beryl refused and said she wanted Fred home but the company declined to tell her who had him now because of GDPR data laws.
