Pension company fine highlights perils of bad advice and non-compliance
Grove Pension Solutions Ltd has been fined £40,000 for sending just over 2 million unsolicited emails. What’s interesting about this case is that a third-party … Read more
Mark Gracey
Small businesses at greater data and cyber-security risk
According to the Would you be ready for Cyber Attack? report from Business in the Community small businesses are not investing as much time or money … Read more
ICO fines Vote Leave for marketing consent failings
Vote Leave has been fined £40,000 by the ICO for sending over 196,000 unsolicited text messages in the run up to the 2016 Brexit referendum. … Read more
ICO building an AI auditing framework
The ICO have launched a new AI Auditing Framework blog which will provide updates and discussion around their work on developing a framework to give them … Read more
Are you going to be audited by the ICO?
Article 58 of the GDPR gives data protection authorities (the national data protection regulators – ours is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)) the power to … Read more
Review of data protection compliance indicates room for improvement
The annual Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) “sweep” is a joint study carried out across the world by data protection regulators (including the UK’s ICO). … Read more
EDPB confirms status of EU-UK data flows in a no-deal scenario
At it’s Seventh Plenary Session, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted a note on data transfers under the GDPR in the event of a … Read more
Website “formjacking” increasing risk to insecure sites
According to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report 2019 on average 4800 websites a month are compromised by formjacking code. Formjacking is a cyber security threat to … Read more
EDPB published work program for 2019/20
The European Data Protection Board has published its work program for the next couple of years, which includes development of a number of (hopefully) useful … Read more
ICO fact-finding on data protection in adtech
There’s been a lot of noise recently around the use of personal data in adtech (advertising tech) including cases like the Google £44m fine from … Read more