In the world of data protection and Data Protection Officers, you will notice nominal after people’s names, like PC.dp (GDPR) and CIPM, CIPP/E, CIPP/US and Data Protection Practitioner. What exactly does all this mean? A Data Protection Practitioner is a person who is active in practising the profession, who is knowledgable and has experience. The
The whole idea behind data protection is to protect a data subjects rights. The data protection laws are based on our Human Rights and our right to privacy. The data protection rights have evolved with the growth of our technical development and use of the world wide web. The ‘internet of things’ has increased the
Your employees are your first line of defence when it comes to compliance with data protection laws. You might have robust policies and procedures in place, but if your staff do not understand their data protection responsibilities – or worse, are even aware of them – they become meaningless, and it puts your company at
This is our second blog of 2020, we have been busy with working on compliance projects, conducting DPIA’s and being engaged to be DPO’s for Public Authorities and private organisations. Our main office in Jersey closed down due to COVID-19 and all our planned training courses in the Channel Islands and Ireland had to be
Welcome to our first blog of 2020. The past twelve months saw an array of guidance, clarifications and new approaches to the changing world of data protection. The clarification to the consent needed before a cookie (Non-essential) can be placed on a user’s system is going to be a major change for organisations with a
We have decided to do this blog every two weeks because we can give you more relevant information and more time for you to get around reading the parts that might interest you. In this blog we are looking at articles on, Guernsey’s new data protection regime, using CCTV in the work place, a decision
We are only looking at three articles this week, the first explaining the new registration process and cost as a controller or processor in Jersey and soon Guernsey. This will increase the registration cost for most organisations. The second look at a GDPR compliance audit carried out by the German Supervisory Authority on 50 companies
In this weeks blog we look at four articles covering a fine issued by the Polish DPA for €645,000 against an online retail company, an update on your position with using electronic signatures – watch out for your email signatures? Facebook settling a £500,000 penalty, without guilt for unfairly processing personal data of 87 million
In this weeks blog I have selected two main articles for your attention. The first confirms the acceptability of the EU-US Privacy Shield but warns that more enforcement must follow for breaches. The second is another Data Breach class action launched, this time against Equifax for a breach in 2017. The most notable fine this month
For this weeks blog, I have selected four articles that may be of interest to you, they are looking at a new structure for deciding how much of a fine will be imposed on organisations and how the Authority will calculate the amount. Talking about Cookie, again, the Planet49 decision and the implications of that
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