What constitutes personal data under GDPR? With GDPR, comes a widening in scope of what constitutes personal data. Historically, we have taken persona...
It has long been accepted that data protection, has by and large been a poor relation in the world of compliance, and in particular never been a good ...
Under GDPR, Article 12 (5), a response to a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) must now be provided free of charge, unless the request is deemed to be...
As the fallout continues following the data scandal embracing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, after facing heavy criticism for his long silence, its...
Social media companies are being urged to do more to protect users' personal data following the Facebook scandal where data analytics firm Cambridge A...
Facebook's value has dropped $50bn following the data scandal which saw 50 million users' personal data being scraped and shared with data firm Cambri...
Not for the first time, FINRA, the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, has warned investors not to be taken in by fake phishing emails that ap...
There have been almost 100 million cyber attacks on UK local government over the last four years, with around 1 in 4 local authority systems being bre...
Cybercrime hits a record high for UK consumers According to a report by cybersecurity firm Norton, more than 17 million brits were hit by cybercrime i...
How prepared is your firm for GDPR? The deadline for implementation of GDPR is fast approaching - 25th May 2018 to be exact. So, how do you think your...
Elizabeth Denham, the UK's Information Commissioner, has accused the media of scaremongering by focusing too much on the fines that may be imposed onc...
Companies share our personal data all the time. Consider the healthcare provider who passes the patient's medical history on to a consultant in readin...
Healthcare providers have been advised to strengthen their data protection controls before GDPR, following a series of breaches.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is warning firms that they must respect individuals' rights to prevent their data being used for marketing...
Data regulators in France, Spain and the Netherlands appear to be flexing their muscles in readiness for GDPR:
Boardrooms across the UK are too complacent and many are failing to take the new data protection rules seriously, according to joint research by Trend...
Who needs consent under GDPR? Everything hangs on consent under GDPR, right? We can't process any personal data without it.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is fast approaching and compliance with data protection laws is more important than ever.
A distribution list is a feature of email client programs that allows a user to maintain a list of email addresses and send messages to everyone in th...
55% of people use the same password for most - if not all - websites 26% use passwords that are easy to remember (such as birthdays and people's names...
