by admin | May 31, 2022 | Data Protection Consultancy, Data Protection Courses, Data Protection Officer, Data Protection Research Blog, Data Protection Training
A ROSS-SHIRE based data protection expert has received a prestigious honour while addressing hundreds of delegates from around the world at a major conference. Liz Taylor, owner of Tkm Consulting, based at Glenshiel near Kyle, was made a fellow of the Information and...
by admin | Dec 17, 2021 | Data Protection Consultancy, Data Protection Officer, Data Protection Research Blog, Data Protection Training
Have you ever dimmed the lights using your smart phone or turned your home heating up from the airport? Some of the modern day technology at our disposal in homes and businesses makes life much easier. We can feed our pets (and even talk to them) from the office, we...
by admin | Oct 27, 2019 | Data Protection Officer, interpretation, skills and competency requirements
Two areas that I have been thinking about recently, which I think will form a key part of my research moving forward, are that of conflict of interest and to what extent the required skills and competencies of a DPO should be determined by the environment in which...
by admin | Oct 6, 2019 | Data Protection Officer, interpretation, skills and competency requirements
Having worked since 1998 in the field of data protection, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has, in my view, significantly increased the profile of those working with the legislation. This is assisted and reinforced by the legislation requiring the...
by admin | Sep 30, 2019 | Data Protection Officer, interpretation, skills and competency requirements
When considering the skills and competencies required by a data protection officer (DPO) to successful fulfil their role, an important source of information is schemes and guidance issued by the supervisory authorities. To date there have been schemes issued by...
by admin | Sep 25, 2019 | CPD, Data Protection Officer, skills and competency requirements
Finally I have managed to get a blog sorted to document the research I am doing for a PhD looking at various aspects of the role of the DPO. I have yet to finalise the research questions although intend to cover a number of different areas including: Interpretation of...