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Cross-Border Data Transfers Post-GDPR: Challenges and Solutions

Companies face the challenge of protecting sensitive information and ensuring privacy compliance when transferring data across borders. The GDPR of the European Union (EU) has set a high standard for data protection and has become the benchmark for compliance in this area. To ensure GDPR compliance, companies must understand the challenges involved and implement effective […]

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Legal and Privacy Challenges of Data Scraping in the Digital Age

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Data Scraping – beyond the familiar term, what secrets does it hold? Throughout this insightful blog, Marin Milenkoski explores the complex world of data scraping and examines the legal and privacy aspects of gathering publicly available information, a practice that is widely used, but often misunderstood. Data scraping, also known as data harvesting, can be […]

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Adopting the New Normal: Navigating Canada’s Latest Data Protection Changes

Change is the only constant in the ever-evolving landscape of data protection. Canada’s data protection laws have undergone significant updates to reflect the digital age’s complexities and safeguard individuals’ privacy rights. As businesses grapple with these changes, the need to adapt, comply, and ensure ethical data practices has never been more critical. In this blog […]

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Exploring Data Protection Beyond GDPR – What You Need to Know About NIS2 Directive

Data protection laws are constantly changing in today’s world, so you can never be sure that you are up-to-date. There are so many of them that it’s sometimes hard to keep up with all. So, let’s introduce you gradually to some of the most important ones. Taking a look at the NIS2 Directive from our […]

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Accountability Tracker

As your Article 27 Representative we will always help if you receive a SAR, RTE, or other data protection complaint. It is always best to avoid these all together but most companies will receive GDPR requests at some point.  Disgruntled ex-employees, annoyed customers, malicious compensation-scammers are common sources of SARs and unfortunately these can result […]

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How to handle a Subject Access Request

We have said this previously but we are still seeing a huge number of Subject Access Requests [SARs]. A SAR is a request made by or on behalf of the data subjects which grants the right to obtain a copy of all the personal data that an organization has collected about them. These are pretty […]

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Data sharing: a code of practice

The UK Government has laid the Data Sharing Code of Practice before Parliament on 18 May 2021. It will lay before Parliament for 40 sitting days before coming into force. In 2011 the ICO published its first Data Sharing Code; in the intervening period the type and amount of data collected by organisations has changed […]

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ICO POST: Data sharing code

Very beneficial blog has been shared by Ali Shah, Head of Technology Policy Blog:Building on the data sharing code: our plans for updating our anonymisation guidance. Data is the lifeblood of the digital economy, and the sharing of personal data is key to opening up new opportunities. Data shared in healthcare environments can map out […]

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Sharing data? Check your contracts.

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If you share personal data with a third party, you need to ensure that you are both GDPR compliant and that you have appropriate contracts in place that include data protection clauses. Most companies will likely share data with Accountants, HR companies, Pension companies or use outsource tasks to third-party services such as marketing, IT, […]

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