Draft Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018
Draft Regulations on the ICO registration fees were laid before Parliament on the 20th February. These draft regulations will come into force on 25th May … Read more
ICO fines Carphone Warehouse £400k
Carphone Warehouse have been issued with one of the largest fines by the Information Commissioner’s Office after customer and employee data was compromised after a … Read more
ICO consulting on children’s data and GDPR
This week, the ICO published some draft guidance on GDPR and children’s data. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) makes special mention of children’s data … Read more
ePrivacy update
Just as the EU have updated the data protection regime with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force across Europe on 25th May … Read more
Draft guidance from Europe on interpretation of GDPR transparency rules
The Article 29 Working Party (the EU’s group of data regulators) have published draft guidance on the transparency aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation … Read more
EU A29WP consent consultation indicates next year for ICO guidance
The data protection principle of consent is one of the significant areas of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that’s changing from the existing data … Read more
Morrisons data breach case highlights wider reaching liabilities than just GDPR fines
A High Court judge has found Morrisons supermarket liable for a 2014 data leak where an employee leaked Morrisons staff payroll information. The employee was … Read more
Privacy policies not up to scratch according to international investigation
A global investigation by data protection regulators, including the UK’s ICO, found that website’s privacy policies tended to be inadequate in providing the information visitors … Read more
Microsoft 365 launching GDPR Compliance Manager
Last week Microsoft announced that it will be launching a Compliance Manager across it’s cloud offering which will help organisations meeting their online compliance requirements, … Read more
Changes to Binding Corporate Rules in a GDPR world
Today the ICO published a new blog post about it’s approach to processing Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs) applications. BCRs are used to allow intra-group transfer … Read more