DATE Dec 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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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DATE Nov 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 Nov 8, 2018 9:06 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
Blog
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 Jun 8, 2018 8:39 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
CATEGORY
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 GDPR...
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DATE Feb 1, 2018 4:51 pm
POSTED BY Usman Ahmed
CATEGORY
Blog
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 Feb 1, 2018 4:43 pm
POSTED BY Usman Ahmed
CATEGORY
Blog
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 Feb 1, 2018 4:39 pm
POSTED BY Usman Ahmed
CATEGORY
Blog
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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