DATE November 30, 2018 8:55 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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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 Philip Brining
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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 8, 2018 9:06 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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Data Protection
In 1878, Thomas Edison founded the General Electric Company, Everton football club was formed, and details of a secret deal between Britain and Russia over the carving up of the Eastern Balkans (the Anglo Russian Convention of 30th May 1878) was sold to a newspaper by Charles Marvin, a copying...
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DATE June 8, 2018 8:39 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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Data Protection
This blog has been written by Boyko Boev, a Senior Data Protection Consultant at Data Protection People. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018 as a result of which the date became known across Europe and probably the world as the GDPR day. The...
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DATE February 1, 2018 4:51 pm
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When the UK leaves the EU on 29th March 2019 the GDPR will already have become law in every other EU member state. The regulations governing the international transfers of personal data are set out in Chapter V of the GDPR. It stipulates that, for the purposes of data transfers...
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DATE February 1, 2018 4:43 pm
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In December 2017, at Maidstone Crown Court, a jury returned 15 guilty verdicts after the ICO prosecuted four individuals in connection with the unlawful disclosure of personal data which was obtained illegally by senior employees of Woodgate & Clark Limited, a firm of loss adjusters, and two private investigators. Director...
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DATE February 1, 2018 4:39 pm
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The decision in the High Court relating to the theft and publishing of the supermarket giant Morrison’s payroll data by a rogue employee throws up interesting points about liability in the event of data loss. In December 2017 Mr Justice Langstaff ruled that the technical and organisational controls in place...
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DATE October 2, 2017 3:18 pm
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The Closed Club Since starting my career in Data Protection I have always noted that it is relatively lacking in youth and a bit of closed club. I once put the question to a relatively senior member of the ICO at a conference, asking if there were any initiatives to...
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DATE October 2, 2017 2:58 pm
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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We undertook a GDPR impact assessment for a large data processor recently and I thought it might be worth sharing our findings and thoughts. Not surprisingly we identified three sources of threat: a processor’s suppliers, their customers, and their ability to meet their own responsibilities set out in the GDPR....
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DATE September 8, 2017 7:34 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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Owing to the word “data” in the Data Protection Act, and due to the lack of teeth and importance that data protection has historically been afforded, for the large majority of clients we have worked it is the IT team who have been tasked with ensuring an organisation is compliant...
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