DATE November 20, 2020 11:03 am
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
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The decision to leave the EU is causing a period of profound change and uncertainty for British businesses, as we near the end of the transition period, and many things remain unclear in the world of data protection. Next week DPPs consulting team will unpick the complex issues during a...
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DATE November 19, 2020 10:36 am
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
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There’s a bit of a debate raging within the consulting team at DPP about the value of privacy and what it will take to persuade the reluctant controllers that they really must comply with the law and really should be taking a best practice approach to privacy management rather than...
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DATE October 23, 2020 11:53 am
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
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The Outsourced DPO has taken one or two exams over the years and last week had to sit the PCI DSS QSA requalification exam: an annual requirement. This is one of the features of the DSS that is class-leading – the requirement to undertake at least 300 CPD hours every...
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DATE February 1, 2018 4:51 pm
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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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
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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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
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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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 December 20, 2016 3:02 pm
POSTED BY Andrew Mason
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Background When we first looked at the GDPR we were asked by our clients if we thought they would be caught by Article 37 of the regulation – the mandatory requirement to nominate a DPO. While it seemed to us that many might well fall under the scope of the...
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DATE November 22, 2016 7:56 pm
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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Recent comments by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the Information Commissioner indicate that businesses cannot afford to delay complying with the GDPR. In the immediate aftermath of the June vote for Britain to leave the European Union we discussed the likely effects that Brexit could...
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DATE June 24, 2016 12:40 pm
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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There will far more erudite commentators than I recording their thoughts in respect of the Brexit and its impact on privacy and data protection over the next few days – but I still thought it useful to commit my thoughts to “paper” for our clients and staff. The gist is...
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DATE April 20, 2016 7:46 am
POSTED BY Philip Brining
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I made a presentation earlier this week to the north eastern members of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants about the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and some of the questions that arose were about what constituted “personal data” and was therefore regulated by the Data Protection Act and...
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