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
ICO enforcement highlights the cost of ignoring subject access requests
Recent enforcement by the ICO against Magnacrest Ltd highlights the cost of ignoring not only your own data subjects, but also the ICO. Magancrest have … Read more
UK in top-3 for notified data breaches
According to new research carried out by DLA Piper regarding breaches reported to regulators across the EU, the UK was the third highest in terms … Read more
How Brexit could impact your data protection compliance
No matter where you sit in the Brexit debate there’s probably a good chance it will have some kind of impact on your business – … Read more
£120k fines highlight need for the right consents and clear privacy statements
In three separate but connected cases the ICO has fined Leave.EU £60k and Eldon Insurance £60k for Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) offences relating … Read more