Max Schrems’s NOYB initiates GDPR action

A privacy NGO led by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems is among the first to file complaints under the GDPR against Google, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook.   As the compliance deadline was reached for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), lawyers began filing...

GDPR requires unprecedented view of Data Flows

Why is it important to know where data flows, with whom it’s shared and where it lives at rest, and what is the best way of achieving this?   It would be unacceptable for a company not to know where its physical assets were stored, how they got there and...

NHS Trusts spend £1 million to prepare for GDPR

Healthcare bodies invest in software tools and staff training, FoI request reveals.   The NHS is underprepared for GDPR despite the data protection law coming into force in just six weeks, according to new research. Trusts have spent more than £1 million...