Do Third Parties Process Your Data? Why You Need a DPA & SCC

If a third party processes data on your behalf, you’ll need a Data Processing Agreement in place to protect your customers and your business – and you could be fined if you don’t get one. Our GDPR Local Experts can explain you why. You run an organisation that wields a lot of data. Sometimes you […]

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What Your Company Needs to Know About SAR

The right for every individual to access data held about them is a core principle of the GDPR. Individuals get hold of that data via a subject access request (SAR), but how should the request be made – and what happens when you receive one? GDPR Local’s Zlatko Delev explains. In the UK and EU, […]

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GDPR Local

Data Breaches GDPR: I Didn’t Know We Could Be Fined For That? You may know that companies can be fined for GDPR violations. Since 2018, more than 1,100 organisations have been. But did you know that private citizens can also risk penalties for data privacy violations? Here, data protection specialist Zlatko Delev, shares his knowledge […]

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GDPR Local

Consultancy Panel Data Protection Consultant? Join The GDPR Local Panel UK GDPR representative? EU rep? SOC2 guru? Wherever you are in the world, if you know data protection inside out, GDPR Local’s Zlatko Delev has an invitation for you. When you look cross-industry, data protection is a spectrum. At one end are the organisations who […]

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GDPR Local

Consultancy Panel GDPR Advice? Ask Our Experts For one-off questions or ongoing, on-tap expertise, it’s good to have a GDPR Local data protection consultant on your side. Data protection specialist Zlatko Delev explains why. Let’s suppose that you run a growing tech services company in the US and you’re about to ramp up marketing activity […]

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What are the Leading Causes for Individual GDPR Fines?

At least 65 private individuals have received fines for GDPR violations in the EU since 2018. The total number of GDPR fines since the law came into force in 2018 is 1,186, but only large fines against major corporations tend to make the news.  Still, private citizens can just as easily end up in court […]

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ICO issue fine of £4.4 to Interserve for security failings

On 24 October 2022, the ICO issued a penalty notice (MPN) to Interserve Group Limited (Interserve), imposing a fine of £4.4m for violations of the GDPR (the violations were pre-Brexit). The ICO found that Interserve had failed to put appropriate technical and organizational measures in place to secure personal data (in contravention of Articles 5(1)(f) […]

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What is a personal data breach?

Many companies don’t take data privacy protection seriously until a data breach occurs.A data breach is the worst nightmare that can happen to a company.If you’ve ever faced a data breach, you will understand the difficulties that you might face without a robust protection. ICO thoroughly explains what a personal data breach is and how […]

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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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Right to Erasure and how to handle it

Summary: The Right to Be Forgotten is one of the fundamental rights defined in GDPR.  Also known as a Right to Erasure this principle defined in Article 17. It is vital that companies recognize these requests and understand how to deal with them. Most importantly the Right to Erasure is not an absolute right and […]

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