by David Stone | Mar 11, 2019 | GDPR Blog
Responding to a breach is not just about data, it is about taking care of, and protecting, customers The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has shone a light on how businesses prepare for, and respond to, a data breach. With cyber criminals becoming...
by David Stone | Feb 5, 2019 | Recent Breach
written by Luke Graham at City A.M. Back in December, I wrote an article asking why, six months after the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) had come into force, we had not yet seen any major fines or punishments for firms that had misused or...
by David Stone | Nov 27, 2018 | GDPR Blog
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined two companies that made nearly 1.73 million direct marketing phone calls to people registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). It is against the law to make marketing calls to numbers that have been...
by David Stone | Nov 20, 2018 | GDPR Blog
Many organisations have still not embedded data protection practices into their day to day business operations, according to Stewart Room, lead partner for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and data protection at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). After a...
by David Stone | Nov 12, 2018 | Recent Breach
Privacy watchers say the breach of personal data of members of the Radisson Hotel Group’s loyalty scheme could be an interesting test case for how the GDPR will be applied. The Radisson Hotel Group, comprising more than 1,400 hotels in more than 70 countries, has...