Virtual Data Protection Officer – Making them work for your businesses.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legal framework requires specific organisations to have accountability in place for their data protection and data protection officers (DPO). While there has been some uncertainty around if this applies to SME, due in part to earlier drafts of the GDPR, this uncertainty has been quashed by the Information Commissioners [...] Reflections on Transparency
In the beginning (well Article number 5 but close to the beginning) there is the 1st Principle of the General Data Protection Regulations or GDPR to give it the shorthand. The 1st Principle goes like this, “Personal data shall be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject”. Note […]
Data-breach fine by the ICO. Easily avoidable?
Yesterday, June 08th 2018 the ICO announced they have fined The British and Foreign Bible Society £100,000 for a data breach. While the fine is not as high as the well publicised maximum fines available to the ICO to hand-out £100,000 is a lot of money for any organisation to afford for something easily avoidable. The […]