by Chris Walker | Nov 27, 2018 | Uncategorised
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 Chris Walker | Nov 20, 2018 | Uncategorised
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 Chris Walker | Nov 12, 2018 | Uncategorised
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...
by Chris Walker | Nov 5, 2018 | Uncategorised
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Facebook £500,000 for serious breaches of data protection law. In July, the ICO issued a Notice of Intent to fine Facebook as part of a wide ranging investigation into the use of data analytics for political...
by Chris Walker | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorised
Insurance Company Bupa has been fined £175,000 after an employee offered personal data of 547,000 customers for sale on the Dark Web. In particular, these details included names, dates of birth, email addresses and nationality accessed by employee who then attempted...
by Chris Walker | Sep 7, 2018 | Uncategorised
The May 25th deadline to meet the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation requirements came and went, but the work of chief privacy officers is far from over. With EU and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation data privacy frameworks, the future of data...
by Flowz | Aug 2, 2018 | Uncategorised
Flowz has successfully been listed on G-Cloud 10, making its SaaS-based Product and services available to NHS Trusts via the latest iteration of government’s procurement framework. Trusts can access the key services needed to successfully deploy an electronic patient...
by Flowz | Aug 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
The GDPR’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) mandate gives the EU a point person for compliance complaints, but not all companies need one. See when DPOs are required and what they do. The General Data Protection Regulation requires many companies to appoint a data...
by Flowz | Jul 25, 2018 | Uncategorised
GDPR is not the end of civilisation as we know it, but organisations could be forgiven for feeling as though it was, given the way the technology vendors have been presenting it to them. While vendors are emphasising that it’s a major technology challenge that the...
by Flowz | Jun 26, 2018 | Uncategorised
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...
