July 11, 2022

Future Global Data Protection Laws – What Can We Expect?

In the latest UK Data Protection Index report, it was revealed that the majority of privacy professionals do not feel confident advising their organisations on data […]
June 27, 2022

DCMS consultation response – greater clarity or mass uncertainty? 

Back in November, we posted a blog discussing the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) recently published consultation entitled “Data: a new direction”. […]
May 25, 2022

Happy Birthday GDPR: Looking into the Future Technology and Global Privacy

With the EU GDPR turning four years old this week, we thought it was only fitting to talk about what the next four years could look […]
May 16, 2022

Top 5 DSAR Challenges and How To Deal With Them

At The DPO Centre, we are working hard to reduce the difficulties associated with even the most complex of Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), whether that […]
June 14, 2021

Soft Opt-what? Soft Opt-in for direct marketing

PECR – four letters that are the bane of some marketers’ lives.     The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), as the name would suggest, control businesses’ use of electronic […]
June 1, 2021

A Point of View: Do Processors have to appoint an EU/UK GDPR Representative?

When faced with a data protection related quandary, most people turn to the web for an answer to their dilemma; scouring legislation, supervisory authority guidance, or […]
December 28, 2020

The DPO Centre’s Research Results – 7 steps for handling customer data

In 2018, the GDPR was introduced to help provide consumers with more control and transparency around how their data is used. Since then, companies have had to implement a wide range of measures, with considerable […]
December 11, 2020

ICO Accountability Framework: Part 3

In the third and final blog post on this topic, we consider the last four sections of the ICO’s Accountability Framework: Contracts and Data Sharing; Risks […]
November 17, 2020

ICO Accountability Framework: Part 2

The ICO’s Accountability Framework aims to provide organisations with some clear examples of actions that would indicate to the ICO that they were complying with the […]
November 3, 2020

ICO Accountability Framework: Part 1

Last month, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published its Accountability Framework with a view to helping organisations better understand how to comply with the GDPR’s Accountability […]
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