What is the big deal about Privacy Shield? Over 5000 US companies were certified under the Privacy Shield (PS) framework enabling them to process EU Personal data. That is 5000+ organisations who can no longer count on Privacy Shield for EU Personal Data International Transfers. It became illegal under EU law for any EU Controller […]
Privacy Shield Ruling On the 16th July 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Privacy Shield does not provide a safe mechanism for transfers of personal data outside of Europe to the US. The ruling became effective immediately and therefore any organisation whose data transfers to the US relied on Privacy Shield […]
Or any other personal data breach for that matter. The very recent £183 million fine imposed on British Airways for their data breach has brought to light an issue with the GDPR and how to go about enforcing it.
Registering with the ICO Organisations across the business services, construction and finance sectors are among the first to be fined by the ICO for not paying their data protection fee. For anyone who has taken the ‘we’ll just wait and see what happens approach’, this action shows the ICO’s intent. Registration is a small step […]
GDPR The Future of the Industry Second day back from the Data Protection World Forum at the Excel in London, 20th and 21st November 2018. Initial Thoughts Overall footfall was low, although there were a few genuine enquiries, and talking to the other exhibitors this was pretty much the consensus.
They all form part of a very important question which is “Will Convention 108+ Help Britain with a GDPR Adequacy Ruling Post Brexit?” Why does this matter you may ask yourself? GDPR is a Regulation applicable to countries who are part of the EU/EEA and who have therefore signed up to GDPR by default for […]
GDPR Auditing and Thebes Group Announce Partnership GDPR Auditing and Thebes Group, collectively ThebesGDPRAuditing cement their partnership by demonstrating their Cherwell GDPR product offering at the Cherwell EMEA Conference 2018 (Reading 17thand 18thApril).
25 May is GDPR Day Today is the day…. what day you might ask. The day before the late May bank holiday weekend. A day of rain, the last Friday in May 2018? Its GDPR Day, the day the regulations come into full force. What? no fanfare, no thunder and lightning. Well no!
GDPR Self-Assessment for Accountants as promoted by the ACCA GDPR Auditing in partnership with Landmark are pleased to announce that after a very successful launch of their GDPR Self-Assessment workbook for accountants that the ACCA are now promoting the solution to their members. The self-assessment solution launched at the end of February has already become […]
GDPR Auditing in Partnership with Landmark Launch GDPR Self-Assessment for Accountants Our GDPR Self-Assessment pack created in conjunction with Landmark – Accountancy Practice Development Specialists [Bob Edwards] is now available to order from the Landmark site today. We recognise that GDPR can be a daunting task, so we created this package to give you as […]