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Jersey Data Trusts: a closer look
News

Jersey Data Trusts: a closer look

The LifeCycle pilot project is the first time that a legally valid and duly established trust structure has been used to establish a data trust. What is a data trust? Data trusts facilitate the extraction of greater value from data through sharing.  A data trust allows people or organisations who collect or hold data to

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post covid working arrangements
News

New ways of working | What should you consider?

As we start to peek over the edge of COVID-19 lockdown, hopefully, and restrictions on our personal lives and businesses begin to lift, we must now review how we work and where we work. Flexible working has been around for a long time although I, for one, have always been very apprehensive about it.  Call

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data protection of cookies, biometrics and outsourcing DPO
Cookies

Data Protection: cookies, biometrics & DPO positions

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

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gdpr news guernsey data protection regime and eu fine
Data Protection

GDPR: Guernsey’s Data Protection regime & EU fines

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

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workplace data protection and eu fines
Data Protection

GDPR Updates: Workplace data & EU fines

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

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channel islands registration and eu gdpr updates
Data Protection

Channel Islands new registration process & EU GDPR Updates

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

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eu data protection news and updates november 2019
Data Protection

EU Data Protection fines & Updates, November 2019

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

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Data Protection: EU-US Privacy Shield & Data Breach
Data Sharing

Data Protection: EU-US Privacy Shield & Data Breach

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

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new data protection fine structures
Cookies

New GDPR fine structures?

 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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data protection weekly update october 2019
Cookies

Data Protection: Weekly update and news, October 2019

Week ending 18/10/19 We have seen lots of articles this week on a deal or no-deal situation and the possible issues with data transfers to and from the UK, once they leave and more about Cookies.  This is the hot topic for this week, with the judgement of the Planet49 decision, clearly showing that consent

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