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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned firms that they must respect individuals' rights to prevent their data being used for marketing...

Since the pandemic, the collection of sensitive personal data has become a necessity for businesses. We explain what special category data is and how ...

Breaching the GDPR can cost you up to €20m or 4% of annual global turnover. Which is why we are tracking the size and reasons for the biggest GDPR fin...

Criminals often take advantage of a crisis by using phishing emails that appear to originate from reputable and familiar organisations. We've got some...

GDPR compliance becomes more challenging than ever during times of disruption. To maintain data protection compliance you will need to focus and prior...

What implications does the UK leaving the European Union have for the GDPR? Will anything change? We answer your most frequently asked questions.

Before you transfer personal data to other organisations, especially outside the EEA, you need to stop and think about the GDPR implications.

Ransomware attacks - where hackers gain control of IT systems or data and then demand payment to unlock them - doubled in the UK in 2019. Now only the...

Penalties for breaching the GDPR can reach up to €20 million or 4% of annual global turnover, whichever is highest. We examine the size and reasons fo...

According to recent estimates, cyber criminals around the world generate approximately £1.2 trillion each year, an amount which is likely to keep risi...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ushered in a new era in the protection of personal data in 2018. Any company deemed non-compliant faces ...

The Skillcast Compliance Insights Survey found 4 in 5 employees & their managers believed that they understand & comply with data protection legislati...

Two internationally recognised experts speak about the realities of companies acting under the GDPR and the more recent PECR regulation at Skillcast's...

The maximum fines for data breaches have significantly increased since GDPR was introduced. Under the Data Protection Act (DPA), £500,000 used to be t...

Ever wondered whether you need a Data Protection Officer (DPO)? If you haven't appointed a DPO but are thinking if you should have done, we are here t...

With GDPR, comes a widening in scope of what constitutes personal data. Historically, we have taken it to mean any data from which a living individual...

Data protection has long been a poor relation in the world of compliance, a particular issue when it so often conflicts with money laundering regulati...

Under GDPR, fees can only be charged for data access if the subject's request is repetitive, excessive or unfounded. But the burden of proof rests wit...

Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook accepted that it needed to do more to ensure that data protection principles are applied and GDPR ...

Social media companies are being urged to do more to protect users' personal data following the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal.