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
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New E-privacy rules progressing through EU
It’s not just data protection that’s changing next year, the EU are also working on introducing new e-privacy regulations. Proposals for new e-privacy regulations were announced … Read more
EU GDPR guidance starting to take shape
There’s a question about whether it’s coming quick enough, but the EU’s Article 29 Working Party appear to be on the role with their GDPR … Read more
GDPR administrative fines and level playing field across Europe
The Article 29 Working Party (all the EU regulators) have published guidance to help statutory bodies (regulators such as the ICO) in their deliberations over … Read more
Lack of trust and understanding in UK business use of personal data
Research commissioned by the Information Commissioner’s Office indicates that only a fifth of UK citizens trust organisations and businesses with their personal data. In fact, … Read more
MailChimp removes and puts back double opt-in for EU users
If you’re a MailChimp user you may have received a couple of emails from them recently about their position on double opt-in defaults. Up until … Read more
ICO clarifies what’s going to happen with registration
One of the regulatory requirements missing from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the requirement to register your data processing activities with a supervisory authority … Read more
ICO publishes draft guidance on the Controller – Processor relationship
Chapter IV of the GDPR sets out responsibilities of Data Controllers and Data Processors. Whilst the general responsibility of a Data Controller is to apply … Read more
Data Protection Bill published
Having announced last month it’s intentions for a new Data Protection Bill (as per the Queen’s speech back in June) the government have, this week … Read more
UK government publishes paper on the case for EU data flows post Brexit
Whilst the UK is still part of the EU it can continue to benefit from EU transfers of data as set out in the 1995 … Read more