DATE January 28, 2019 9:19 am
POSTED BY Nicholasɩ
CATEGORY
DPO
Data Protection Chocolates… The 28th January is International Privacy Day and therefore a great opportunity to do some internal awareness raising about data protection. In the past the Outsourced DPO has had balloons printed to create balloon arches welcoming colleagues to work, he’s printed posters, run quizzes and competitions, and...
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DATE January 17, 2019 11:00 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Blog
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
Blog
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 Nicholasɩ
CATEGORY
Data Breach
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 20, 2018 10:19 am
POSTED BY Nicholasɩ
CATEGORY
DPO
This week the Outsourced DPO has created a GDPR quiz with data protection riddles that need to be solved. The Outsourced DPO is always looking for new and inventive ways of engaging with the workforce and management and raising awareness of data protection matters – and in a break with...
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DATE December 14, 2018 4:10 pm
POSTED BY Nicholasɩ
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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DATE November 30, 2018 8:55 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Data Protection
It’s been an interesting week for the Outsourced DPO: dispatched to the Jurassic Coast for a spot of auditing at two separate client sites, kicking off a new GPDR compliance project and advising on a couple of personal data breaches. Don’t shoot the messenger! Most of the week was spent...
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DATE November 27, 2018 1:54 pm
POSTED BY Nicholasɩ
CATEGORY
Data Protection
Another interesting week as an Outsourced DPO including two days at the Data Protection World Forum, a letter from the ICO, and more proactive regulation in Germany. A day in the life of a DPO I attended the two-day Data Protection World Forum in London’s ExCel this week both as...
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DATE November 21, 2018 12:27 pm
POSTED BY Nicholasɩ
CATEGORY
Data Protection
What is it? The ePrivacy Regulation (ePR) will replace the ePrivacy Directive 2002 (amended 2009), which gave us the UK’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) in 2003. The ePR is expected to come into force in 2019 and will apply to internet-based voice and messaging services (such as Skype,...
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