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Unfortunately for you, the ICO was directly asked about this and responded that they do not envision a grace period

> Steve Wood, ICO Deputy Commissioner: Will there be a grace period? No. You will not hear talk of grace periods from people at the ICO. That's not part of our regulatory strategy.

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The grace period for the GDPR started in 2016 when it was adopted. Everyone had over 2 years to read and implement the GDPR.

All those concerns about the GDPR are, as far as I can tell, younger than a year, most of them even younger than a few months.

You had two years grace period.

Except the lazy morons running the privacy orgs couldn't be arsed to give us final guidance until, well, mid April. And that definitely includes the ICO. I mean, I understand it's a lot to expect to have final guidance on running a balancing test more than a month before the deadline, but I guess grace periods are just for the regulators.

The ICO has a tiny staff and is already underfunded. The grace period is a pragmatic one not one enshrined in law!

GDPR was written in 2012, as an update of a 1995 law; it entered into effect in 2016 with a grace period lasting until this year.

If 6 years wasn't a long enough period for companies to prepare I submit that no amount of time would ever be.

I wish we could say this about IPv6 too.

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