Industry accreditation for Thorntons’ Director
The Director of Data Protection Services at full service law firm Thorntons has recently passed her Certified Information Privacy…
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Personal data transfers. New SCCs for the EU and the UK receives long awaited adequacy decision
On the 4 of June 2021 the European Commission adopted two new sets of standard contractual clauses: one optional set for use between…
Keeping it Professional
Data Protection Legislation dictates that an individual shall have the right to obtain, from a data controller, access to all personal data…
Data Protection | EU Standard Contractual Clauses
In June 2021, the European Commission released the final impending decision on standard contractual clauses (SCC’s) for the transfer of…
NHS England Data Sharing
NHS Digital, England’s healthcare IT service, are hoping to amass the records of millions of English GP patients to improve patient care –…
Employment Law | Disciplinary and Grievance Investigations
Do you know how the GDPR applies to disciplinary and grievance investigations?
Disciplinary and grievance procedures inevitably involve…
GDPR Violation for German Company using MailChimp for Marketing.
A German data protection authority has recently ruled that the use by a Munich publishing company of the US-based email marketing platform…
Political Campaigning and the use of Personal Data.
With polling day almost upon us, most of us have been on the receiving end of campaign activity relating to the upcoming parliamentary…
Data Protection webinar: Privacy Program Management
In an age of big data and machine learning, many organisations have found they have a greater need to process and store personal data. This…
Cyber-attacks. What can you do to protect your organisation's personal data?
Almost daily we are seeing cyber-attacks in the news. From nurseries to universities, to SMEs and, to corporate giants like Microsoft –…
Employment Law | Monitoring and Managing Employee Performance
Employee monitoring software can give companies a means to monitor employees during the working day. Some may view this as an effective way…
Vaccine Data Privacy Concerns in the Workplace
With over a million people in Scotland having received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccination, the rollout is most certainly underway…
Corporate Webinar | The UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement
In the last days of the Brexit transition period, the UK and EU finally agreed a trade deal – the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. The…
What does 2021 hold for Data Protection and Intellectual Property Rights
2020 ended much as it began with many unprecedented events, not least the UK's last-minute trade and cooperation agreement between the EU…
ICO Enforcement Trends in 2020
Although 2020 will undoubtedly become synonymous with a certain c-word that shall not be named, it has also perhaps seen a turning of the…
Data Protection | A round up of 2020 ICO Enforcement Action
It is now more than two years since the Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR came into force. The new legislation significantly increased the…
Data Protection | Practical Guidance to Preparing for Brexit
As we step into 2021, EU GDPR will no longer apply within the UK. From the 1st January 2021, the Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”) will…
Data Protection Webinar | Data Protection and Brexit
With only two months remaining of the EU transition period, many organisations have been anticipating what the Data Protection landscape…
UK: Information Commissioner's Office Age Appropriate Design Code
The days of parents supervising their children's every digital move are quickly becoming a distant memory. The sole computer which once sat…
Protect Scotland App and Your Privacy.
As Scotland experiences an increase in positive cases of COVID-19, and increased local restrictions, it was timely of the Scottish…
Why Redundancies Could Lead to Increased Subject Access Requests
An unanticipated consequence of the increase in redundancies resulting from the pandemic is that many organisations find themselves in…