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Robert Bell
Apr 4, 2024
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...
Robert Bell
Mar 28, 2024
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, 2024
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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