GDPR

Act Now Training is pleased to announce that it has been nominated for this year’s Information and Records Management Society (IRMS) awards in two categories.  Each year the IRMS recognises excellence in the field of information management with their prestigious Industry Awards. … Continue reading → Source link

Neil Murphy writes… Pupils in England return to school today. Secondary schools have been given the additional task of facilitating on-site covid tests. Not only do they need to be trained, ready to supervise this testing, they also need to be up … Continue reading → Source link

Vaccine passports are very topical at present. Our director, Ibrahim Hasan, was interviewed on BBC Essex (on 2nd March 2021) about the privacy and data protection implications.  Listen again here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k4hxbrfziuc1aom/GDPR%20and%20Vaccine%20Passports.mp3?dl=0 More interviews by Ibrahim here: https://actnowtraining.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/ibrahim-hasan-on-the-bbc/ Source link

Act Now Training is pleased to announce the launch of the new UK GDPR Handbook. The handbook is designed for data protection practitioners and legal advisers who require a complete guide to the UK Data Protection regime post Brexit. The UK’s exit from the European Union has resulted in changes to the … Continue reading → Source link

India is one of the world’s largest data-generating countries and is on the cusp of enacting a new Data Protection Law. PrivSec Report examines what it could all mean.  India is not just any player in the global data market. With its 1.36 billion residents and its recent record of…

Following the ICO’s record fine for British Airways under the GDPR, Julian Hayes and Guevara Leacock, consider the potentially very expensive group claim civil action now being prepared.   The dust has not yet settled on the Information Commissioner’s fine imposed on British Airways (BA) in October 2020, but the…

The Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) in Israel has determined Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu and tech company Elector Software broke privacy regulations in a data breach affecting about 6.5m voters. During an election campaign in February 2020 what the authority termed a serious information security incident occurred with data appearing online.…

Plan to scrap Mexico data protection body blow to human rights, say campaigners Proposals by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to eliminate the National Institute for Transparency and Access to Information and Data Protection (INAI) would be a major setback for human rights in the country, according to Human…

The Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner in Australia, Angelene Falk, has found the Department of Home Affairs interfered with the privacy of 9,251 asylum seekers by mistakenly releasing their personal information. The case arose from the department, formerly the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, publishing a detention report on…

Marketing company Epsilon Data Management has agreed a $150m settlement with the United States’ Department of Justice (DoJ) to resolve a criminal charge for selling data on more than 30 million Americans to perpetrators of fraud schemes who were targeting older people. The deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) includes Epsilon selecting…