Compliance Insights Articles

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,...

Legitimate Interests - A catch-all lawful basis under GDPR for processing data?

Robert Bell

Jun 7, 2018

Legitimate Interests - A catch-all lawful basis under GDPR for processing data?

Reflecting on the three weeks since the General Data Protection Regulation implementation date, it’s clear that the impact of the new...

Have you taken an overzealous approach to GDPR?

Robert Bell

May 29, 2018

Have you taken an overzealous approach to GDPR?

So, here we are, after years of anticipation the GDPR implementation date has finally passed…and the earth is still here. Despite...

Victoria Bell

May 22, 2018

Pre-GDPR Audit – Check You’re Compliant

With the 25th May implementation date for the General Data Protection Regulation looming at the end of this week, our handy guide to...

What Your Data Protection Officer Should Be Doing This Week

Robert Bell

May 16, 2018

What Your Data Protection Officer Should Be Doing This Week

With the implementation of GDPR less than a week away, firms across the country have been preparing for the new regulation. Most of us...

It's Not Too Late to Take GDPR Action - 5 Easy Steps To Get Started

Robert Bell

May 9, 2018

It's Not Too Late to Take GDPR Action - 5 Easy Steps To Get Started

It’s never too late to take action on GDPR. As recently as March 2018, just 5% of EU companies believed they were compliant with all of...

The GDPR Clock is Ticking: What SME's Need to Know

Victoria Bell

May 2, 2018

The GDPR Clock is Ticking: What SME's Need to Know

With just twenty-four days to go until GDPR is enforced in the UK, now is the time to review your compliance and ensure any last-minute...

GDPR 8 Rights - What Your Team Needs to Know

Robert Bell

Apr 24, 2018

GDPR 8 Rights - What Your Team Needs to Know

The count-down to GDPR continues, with only a few weeks now before the implementation date. If you are an avid reader of our articles you...

Victoria Bell

Apr 10, 2018

Risks of Non-Compliance to GDPR

There have been plenty of articles about the risks and consequences of non-compliance, with most focusing on the maximum penalties, and a...

GDPR is All About Evolution, Not Revolution

Robert Bell

Apr 4, 2018

GDPR is All About Evolution, Not Revolution

Out with the old and in with the new. The rules relating to Data Protection are about to see the most dramatic change in years, if not...

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