DATE February 12, 2020 10:33 am
POSTED BY Makaya Chibuye
CATEGORY
Data Protection
Data protection has been in the spotlight for the last few years as more and more cases of theft and security breaches occur. Businesses can take five relatively simple steps to improve their data protection and ensure they give consumers confidence and the right experience. 1) Data Location The first...
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DATE January 31, 2020 10:01 am
POSTED BY Makaya Chibuye
CATEGORY
Blog
This week gave us something fantastic to celebrate and I am not speaking of Brexit. The 28th January was the 13th annual International Data Protection/Privacy Day! What? You can’t have missed all the fanfare and razamataz? 28th January is of course, the anniversary of the opening for signature of European Convention 108...
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DATE January 16, 2020 10:01 am
POSTED BY Makaya Chibuye
CATEGORY
Blog
The Outsourced DPO has been having a green January utilising the under-used Esk Valley Railway for his daily commute to Leeds. This has meant more time for reading – which is a good thing given the changes in the data protection legislative landscape around the world. It was 5 or...
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DATE January 7, 2020 11:58 am
POSTED BY Makaya Chibuye
CATEGORY
Uncategorized
One of the common misconceptions about data protection law is that data in the public domain is a freely available resource to which the law does not apply. For example, some people believe that telephone numbers on websites are not subject to the PECR and are fair game for outbound...
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DATE December 18, 2019 10:14 am
POSTED BY Makaya Chibuye
CATEGORY
Outsourced DPO
The Outsourced DPO has seen an increasing number of subject access requests submitted via third-party service sites making for an interesting trend. In the last few months there seems to have been an increasing number of web sites and apps offering to submit subject access requests on behalf of data...
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DATE December 17, 2019 12:29 pm
POSTED BY Makaya Chibuye
CATEGORY
Data Protection
The weeks in the run up to Christmas are always busy for the Support Desk, who are on hand to assist with personal data breaches and near miss incidents. Data Breaches and Near Misses! Most of our clients are currently using the Support Desk, based in Leeds. Our clients are...
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DATE December 10, 2019 9:23 am
POSTED BY Makaya Chibuye
CATEGORY
Blog
There seems to be some confusion out there about the requirement to register with the ICO – the Outsourced DPO was asked about this on four separate occasions last week. If you cast your mind back, articles 18 and 19 of the Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC) contained an obligation...
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DATE November 25, 2019 4:07 pm
POSTED BY Makaya Chibuye
CATEGORY
Blog
The Outsourced DPO has been asked to critique some customer DPIAs recently and has made the following observations. 1 Complex forms There seems to be a hugely complicated forms that need to be filled in to record the DPIA running in some cases to 20 pages. This acts as a big...
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DATE November 15, 2019 12:48 pm
POSTED BY Makaya Chibuye
CATEGORY
Blog
You may have missed the fine of €14½ million imposed by the data protection authority of Berlin on Deutsche Wohnen SE, a property management company who were found to use software systems that do not allow for the deletion of data. This regulatory action resonated with the Outsourced DPO because...
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