All GDPR Compliance articles – Page 2

  • GDPR:Summit London
    Feature

    Employee rights under GDPR

    2018-04-27T11:47:00Z

    Personal data means all data concerning individuals and that means not only customers, but, for example, suppliers and staff. At the recent GDPR Summit London, GDPR and the rights of employees came up time and time again, but a panel discussion uncovered some important lessons.

  • Healthcare
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    What do healthcare organisations need to consider when preparing for GDPR?

    2018-04-09T16:13:00Z

    As we know the new rules brought in by GDPR will reinforce current legislation with the addition of some new requirements. Any organisation, including those in the healthcare sector, controlling or processing personally identifiable data will need to comply with GDPR.

  • Report
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    GDPR: Changing the ways businesses interact with their customers

    2018-03-28T13:32:00Z

    From 25 May 2018 the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) will be replaced by The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and it will bring important changes to the ways data is stored and processed by businesses.

  • GDPR
    Article

    GDPR and PECR for marketers

    2018-03-28T12:39:00Z

    Data protection and marketing are so closely interconnected that no marketing plan involving data can move forward without getting data protection right. GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation – and PECR – Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations – are regulations concerning data protection that marketers must familiarise themselves with.

  • Back to School
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    Why all teachers and staff must be ready for GDPR

    2018-03-26T11:33:00Z

    Schools have their own special set of challenges when preparing for GDPR and imminent EU rules will radically change the way all organisations have to look after personal data.

  • Privacy
    Feature

    Personal data breaches: the responsibility of the data processor

    2018-02-23T12:22:00Z

    One of the aims of GDPR is “accountability” and this is emphasised when it comes to personal data breaches – that is breaches of security which lead to damage. The potential damage is clearly illustrated in Recital 85 of the GDPR to include “discrimination, identity theft or fraud, financial loss, unauthorised reversal of pseudonymisation, damage to reputation, loss of confidentiality”.

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    GDPR and Google Analytics

    2018-02-01T10:24:00Z

    Many businesses use Google Analytics as their only web analytics tool and are very happy with it.

  • Meetings
    Feature

    Balancing a warm corporate welcome and GDPR

    2017-12-22T11:44:00Z

    Worth £193bn annually to the UK economy, face-to-face business remains king, so how can UK organisations strike the right balance between a smooth check-in for visitors and meeting the forthcoming GDPR requirements?

  • School Chalk Board
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    How can schools ensure they are GDPR compliant?

    2017-12-05T14:46:00Z

    The new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is replacing the current Data Protection Act (DPA) and is set to strengthen and unify all data held within an organisation.

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    GDPR: What can you prove?

    2017-11-23T12:30:00Z

    Within the immense framework that is GDPR, there is one clause that invokes a topic in the security community that is particularly interesting, though not very much fun: audit logging. When you read Article 30 that covers “Records of Processing” you see that data processors and controllers need to be able to show how and when data was processed and be able to prove it. Typically this comes in the form of some type of application or security log that provides an audit trail of the actions taken against data from the time of its creation to its erasure.

  • Files
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    GDPR Subject Access Requests

    2017-11-20T16:56:00Z

    Handling subject access requests (“SAR”) effectively and within the legal timeframe remains a challenge for many employers especially where SARs are becoming increasingly onerous

  • Video Conferencing Privacy
    Feature

    How to keep video conferencing GDPR compliant

    2017-10-06T14:24:00Z

    The countdown to GDPR is on. The legislation marks a crackdown in terms of where data is stored in the cloud, with stricter fines for businesses in breach of those regulations.

  • Data Security
    Feature

    8 tips to securely dispose of your end of life data assets

    2017-09-13T17:23:00Z

    In preparation of GDPR, it is vital that your business has a process in place to securely and responsibly dispose of end of life data assets. 

  • Server
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    GDPR and storage limitation: time to update your data retention policy?

    2017-06-22T13:04:00Z

    The gist of the storage limitation principle under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (Art 5(1)(e)) isn’t materially different to the existing principle under the Data Protection Directive. In a nutshell, personal data should not be retained longer than necessary, in relation to the purpose for which such data is processed.

  • GDPR Compliance
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    Five ways technology accelerates GDPR compliance

    2017-06-14T10:17:00Z

    You may already be familiar with the GDPR. Indeed, you may be working right now on a compliance strategy to target the Regulation. Or maybe there’s still a lot of work to be done: research last year indicated that just 46 percent of organisations are highly confident that they’ll be ready by the implementation date and 88 percent report technological challenges.