DATE January 27, 2021 12:41 pm
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
CATEGORY
Blog
The European Data Protection Board published some great new guidelines about data breaches last week. What makes the guidance great is that it essentially works through 18 use-cases including examples such as mailing things to the wrong person, exfiltration of data by a former employee, the accidental transmission of data,...
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DATE January 6, 2021 11:07 am
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
CATEGORY
Blog
The Outsourced DPO read an interesting article on Lexology about how to handle the email accounts of former employees. The case in question was in Belgium and related to the former owners of a family firm being ousted by the company. The ousted, former employees complained to the Belgian supervisory...
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DATE November 19, 2020 10:36 am
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
CATEGORY
Blog
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 November 17, 2020 12:42 pm
POSTED BY Myles Dacres
CATEGORY
Uncategorized
The ICO has been cracking down over the last few weeks and some quite substantial fines have been issued. With news like this its clear that now is a good time to look at your own compliance and make sure your business is secure and protected. Recent fines from the...
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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 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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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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