For those working in Data Protection, there are many interesting things to note about the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation. There is the clarification of consent, which may send tawdry marketers into a spin. There is the tightening of the rules over criminal records. There is the helpful emphasis on risk. My current favourite thing is a […]
This week, the Information Commissioner’s Office issued its latest Data Protection civil monetary penalty, a £150,000 fine on Greater Manchester Police following the theft of an unencrypted pen-drive. The police perspective was available via the Manchester Evening News, in a comment from Assistant Chief Officer Lynne Potts: “This was very much an isolated incident. We […]
The Chief Executive of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has come out fighting. Having just received a record £325,000 civil monetary penalty for DPA breaches, Mr Duncan Selbie has declared that he doesn’t understand what is going on, and he will appeal the CMP forthwith. There is a small part of me that […]
