Compliance Insights Articles

Apr 4

Financial Promotions

The FCA has published guidance on the use of social media in financial promotions. The guidance is timely; more and more businesses are...

ICO now requires standard contractual clauses

Robert Bell

Mar 28

ICO now requires standard contractual clauses

Businesses that use standard contractual clauses to safeguard personal data when making transfers of that data to countries located...

Robert Bell

Feb 1

ICO’s 2025 Strategic Plan

“Empowering you through information.” These four words are meant to sum-up the ICO’s 2025 strategic plan. The words apply to both...

Upcoming Changes To The UK’s Data Protection Laws

Robert Bell

May 25, 2023

Upcoming Changes To The UK’s Data Protection Laws

The Government’s update to the UK’s Data Protection Regime is finally on the move again, with the second Data Protection and Digital...

Robert Bell

Mar 16, 2023

Reform of Data Protection Law

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill was first introduced last summer and ministers have since been engaging in a co-design...

Robert Bell

Apr 7, 2022

GDPR – What has changed with Brexit?

Only four years ago, firms were preparing to fully implement the General Data Protection Regulation. Since the end of the EU transition...

Robert Bell

Jan 19, 2022

GDPR Fines Data 2020/21

At just over 3.5 years since the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, within Europe hundreds of millions of Euros...

Robert Bell

Sep 17, 2020

GDPR Enforcement: A Cause for Concern?

Over two years on from implementation in 2018, GDPR continues to hit the headlines. Within the past weeks, there have been questions...

Robert Bell

Aug 20, 2020

GDPR: The Importance of Training

A recent EU Commission report has assessed that, two years after implementation, GDPR has successfully updated data protection law for...

Robert Bell

Feb 11, 2020

Are your Contracts GDPR Compliant?

GDPR requires that organisations contracting with another, where this agreement includes the processing of personal data, ensure that...

Robert Bell

Nov 27, 2019

What is explicit consent?

With vulnerability high on the FCA’s agenda for 2020, financial services firms have an eye on its new guidance document, which seeks to...

GDPR Considerations For Handling Vulnerable Customer Personal Data

Robert Bell

Oct 17, 2019

GDPR Considerations For Handling Vulnerable Customer Personal Data

With the FCA’s Vulnerability Consultation, in addition to recent media focus on mental health, it’s clear that firms are taking this as...

Data Controllers and Data Processors Contracts and Key Liabilities Under GDPR

Robert Bell

Jun 24, 2019

Data Controllers and Data Processors Contracts and Key Liabilities Under GDPR

This week, we’re going to take a look at contracts between data controllers and data processors, and the responsibilities and liabilities...

Robert Bell

May 7, 2019

GDPR - One Year On

Time flies doesn’t it? Almost exactly one year ago, 25 May 2018, the long-awaited update to the EU’s data protection laws came into...

GDPR Accountability Principle: A Data Controller's Obligation

Victoria Bell

Jan 22, 2019

GDPR Accountability Principle: A Data Controller's Obligation

Accountability is not a new concept in data protection, but whereas the principle of accountability was implicit in the Data Protection...

What is a DPIA and what must you do when you need one?

Robert Bell

Aug 7, 2018

What is a DPIA and what must you do when you need one?

Following the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation eleven weeks ago, the Information Commissioner’s Office have...

How to deal with data subject requests under GDPR

Robert Bell

Jul 25, 2018

How to deal with data subject requests under GDPR

Rights requests made in relation to the General Data Protection Regulation are in the news – with increasing numbers of complaints to the...

Physical, or Hard-Copy, Data Best Practice Under GDPR

Victoria Bell

Jul 18, 2018

Physical, or Hard-Copy, Data Best Practice Under GDPR

In this article we’ll be taking a look at how to ensure physical records processes don’t fall foul of the General Data Protection...

Logging data subjects' requests as part of the 8 rights under GDPR

Robert Bell

Jul 11, 2018

Logging data subjects' requests as part of the 8 rights under GDPR

Following up on last week’s article about timescales, we’ll look this week at the issue of logging requests that come in as part of the...

Time limits under GDPR in regards to the 8 rights

Victoria Bell

Jul 4, 2018

Time limits under GDPR in regards to the 8 rights

It’s been just six weeks since the GDPR came into effect and the initial signs are that the public are aware of, and are exercising,...

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