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Information Governance Blog
Follow us for the latest thoughts on information governance and data protection. The content we share discusses updates to regulations, the shifting role of a DPO and the competencies that professionals should be learning and maintaining.
Preparing for GDPR – Appointing Your Data Protection Officer
With just over a year to go until the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) one of the tasks to get started with for certain types of organisations is the appointment of a Data Protection Officer (DPO). The Article 29 Data Protection...
Preparing for GDPR – Let’s Get Started
I couldn’t help but smile over the Christmas break when the other half was playing with their latest gadget, a well-known Voice Service speaker. Having started to become familiar with how it operated, the requests were getting shorter and shorter. It would appear...
Laws on Using Personal Information Are Changing. Are You Ready?
The Current Situation As many of us will already know, if we use personal information we are likely to be subject to data protection laws that govern the way in which we are able to use that information. Whether we have a simple contacts and appointments book as a...
Updated – Publishing CCTV Images – Don’t Be Tempted!
With the recent publicity surrounding Virgin Trains, empty seats and Jeremy Corbyn, it would seem that organisations remain unaware of the data protection implications when using CCTV images. There was an interesting story that was reported in the press on 31 December...
Using E-mail for Direct Marketing: Do You Know the Rules?
I was recently attending a training session and a discussion started late in the afternoon about e-mail marketing and making the most of customer lists. There wasn’t much of the day left and after a brief chat, we made a joint decision it would be an ideal first topic...
