NADPO courses October 2024

9/10/24: the UK Data Protection legislation and how it fits together 

As a result of being part of the EU for a long time and then leaving it, the UK has a patchwork approach to data protection. There’s the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, a whole lot of amendments and significant levels of noise.

The purpose of this course is to explain calmly and simply: what is all this about? When do you look at the UK GDPR? Where does the DPA come in? Why do people get the relationship so very wrong? And how do you navigate your way through it?

16/10/24: write a GDPR friendly warning marker system 

I’ve been working on data protection issues for 20 or so years, and a question that has constantly come up is ‘is sharing warnings for staff about risks posed by customers and service users a breach of data protection?’. The answer is no: data protection does not prevent you from sharing warnings. This course will help you to build a stable, fair and effective warning system that uses personal data fairly.

Course includes:

• Lawful basis: health and safety, legitimate interests

• Fairness and minimisation: what is your trigger for creating a warning

• Transparency: do you tell the subjects of the warnings, and what do you tell them?

• Litigation in the UK on warning systems – the Clift case

• What the Information Commissioner used to say about violence warning markers (they don’t say anything any more)

• Reviews, retention and challenges