Tag: The GDPR

Your individual rights have evolved under GDPR. But what impact will this have on your business? As well as introducing  new rights, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will clarify and extend individuals’ rights as they stand currently under the Data Protection Act (DPA). What will individual rights be under the GDPR? And what action will…

Long before the GDPR, the ICO was championing the Data Protection Impact Assessment. Now, thanks to the GDPR what was once good practice will become law. A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIAs) is a tool which will help businesses to identify, assess and correct any privacy risks within their data processing practices before  data can…

Consent is one of the lawful bases for processing data. So what are the GDPR’s changes to consent? And what are the benefits to putting them into practice? Implementing GDPR compliant consent practices can do the following: Give individuals genuine choice Give individuals on-going control over their data make your company transparent and accountable Get…

Transparency is one of the guiding principles of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that is coming into play in May 2018. Data subjects, your audience and consumers, will have the right to know what’s happening to their data and who has it. Article 5 of the General Data Protection Regulation establishes a number…

The GDPR’s new and improved accountability regulations puts the spotlight onto you and your business. Come May 2018, you must demonstrate compliance. A recent ICO survey found that 75% of UK adults do not trust businesses with their data. This staggering figure alone should be enough to tell you why accountability is at the forefront of…

The EU designed the new General Data Protection Regulation legislation (GDPR) to give people back control of their personal data. Come the 25th of May, 2018, all businesses will need to review how they collect, store and dispose of data. But how will the GDPR affect how we define personal data? The GDPR defines personal…

GDPR is ages away, right? Not quite. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the new legal framework for data protection laws, and is coming into force on the 25th of May, 2018. If this is the first time you’re hearing about the GDPR, head over to our post introducing you to the basics. Non-compliance…

Many consumers are blasé about giving away personal data without any real understanding of what it will be used for. And also, crucially, who will have it. Well, the time for the deep unknown is nearing an end. As next year sees the start of a new data protection era in Europe. Where the General…