Archives: December 2016

DATE December 20, 2016 3:02 pm POSTED BY Andrew Mason CATEGORY Blog

New guidance concerning mandatory DPOs – Will you need to appoint?

Background When we first looked at the GDPR we were asked by our clients if we thought they would be caught by Article 37 of the regulation – the mandatory requirement to nominate a DPO. While it seemed to us that many might well fall under the scope of the...
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DATE December 12, 2016 2:25 pm POSTED BY Andrew Mason CATEGORY Blog

“The Internet of Things” – A look at the future of Data Protection and the Heating Industry

Last month the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in current history crippled much of the Internet in the United States[1]. As a result a variety of large websites, such as Netflix, Reddit and Twitter, were all brought down. What made the attack so different was that instead of...
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