The GDPR is coming! You now have 18 months to comply!
06 December 2016
Now that we seem to have confirmation from the Government that the GDPR will come into force in the UK on 25 May 2018, it is time to provide you with more information.
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Back to Basics
17 March 2016
Reading the text of the General Data Protection Regulation has given me the chance to remember how useful it is to go back to reading the basic legal text and background material to legislation, specifically the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and the European Directive as well as the shiny new Regulation.
CCTV cameras outside your house? Have you complied with the Data Protection Act?
29 February 2016
If a business is using CCTV then it must comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). It must ensure that it is using surveillance cameras for a legitimate reason, put up proper notices and provide members of the public with copies of the footage that they appear in on request. However, what if a private household has CCTV? Must they also comply and what does that mean?
Personal Data Breaches and Enforcement under the #GDPR
08 February 2016
One of the headline grabbing features of the new data protection regime that is likely to be in place by mid-2018 are the maximum fines that the ICO will be able to impose. ‘Administrative fines’ of up to €20,000,000 or 4% of global turnover will be available for certain infringements, with less serious infringements attracting fines of up €10,000,000 or 2% of global turnover.
Why employers can’t access all employee personal emails
14 January 2016
The newspapers today are full of banner headlines proclaiming that employers now have the unrestricted right to read all employee emails including those which are marked personal. But we see this as a misunderstanding of the outcome yesterday in a European Court of Human Rights case, Barbulescu v Romania (Application 61496/08).