DATE June 7, 2019 10:37 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Blog
The Outsourced DPO has often compared data protection law to driving within the speed limit but a phone call last night changed that perception. Driving home last night, the Outsourced DPO was mulling over a customer brief for a DPIA on a project involving facial recognition when he suddenly remembered...
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DATE May 20, 2019 8:20 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Data Protection
This question is cropping up time again and, as the Outsourced DPO, we are well placed to answer it! The early drafts of the GDPR contained different criteria for determining when the designation of a DPO was mandatory which included for example, organisations employing more than 250 people or processing...
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DATE May 7, 2019 8:01 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Blog
The Outsourced DPO has been out on the road this week visiting a variety of customers and prospects … meanwhile back in Leeds, DPPs support team has been busy handling subject access requests on behalf of a number of clients, and our DataWise developer has been enhancing the way that...
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DATE March 18, 2019 10:49 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Data Protection
The following notes from Data Protection People expand upon the official UK Government guidance in Guidance – Data protection if there’s no Brexit deal – Published 13 September 2018. Brexit background The GDPR allows free movement of personal data throughout the European Economic Area (EEA). The EEA is made up...
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DATE January 17, 2019 11:00 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Data Protection
The Outsourced DPO wrote a blog about Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) last November shortly before the ICO revised their guidance. In this blog, we review the ICO’s updated guidance and share the Outsourced DPO’s experiences from auditing in the lovely Essex this week. It is actually very easy to...
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DATE January 9, 2019 9:50 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Data Protection
Hard Brexit The Outsourced DPO has been looking at the impact of a hard Brexit for some of his clients – what a roller coaster ride that is. In her blog of 13th December, Elizabeth Denham stated that, “the Government has already made clear its intention to permit data to...
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DATE January 4, 2019 11:19 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Data Protection
The weeks in the run up to Christmas was busy for the Support Desk, who were 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 provided...
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DATE December 16, 2018 2:30 pm
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Data Protection
I was preparing some slides for a training event I am delivering next month and thought it might be interesting to share some of the end of training “quiz” questions over the next few weeks more broadly than the group of trainees. As they are true/false, there should be a...
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DATE December 14, 2018 4:10 pm
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Data Protection
Very interesting but here is tomorrow’s blog… not feeling as inspired this week! The Outsourced DPO passes the bomb… The Outsourced DPO has been out and about delivering training this week which has been rather fun and a refreshing change in that you can generally finish a day without acquiring...
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DATE December 7, 2018 7:41 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Data Protection
Having spent last week auditing in North Yorkshire, the Outsourced DPO was working on procedures for handling data subject rights earlier this week. “He’s making it up as he goes along!” The Monty Python film, The Life of Brian, contains some fantastic quotes which those who have attended my training...
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