Today marks the start of the 1 month countdown until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is effective across the European Union (EU). As many of you are well aware, the GDPR comes into effect on 25 May 2018 and businesses established in the EU or marketing their products or…
As you may have heard, the EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into force on 25 May 2018. Why do you need to worry about this? Surely it will just be something that lawyers earn extra fees out of, right? Unfortunately it is a little more important to…
Earlier this year, Part 3 of the Digital Economy Bill was passed by parliament which introduces age verification checks for access to all websites and apps containing pornographic material, due to come into force in 2017. The objective is to safeguard children from accessing content online that is…
As discussed in our last newsletter, the European Court of Justice has effectively ruled the ‘Safe Harbor’ agreement between Europe and the US invalid. This means that European businesses can no longer use this as a way to show that the protection offered by a US company is…
We tend to find that clients are, rightly, nervous about the use of personal data. We regularly read about the latest fines being imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office relating to unauthorised disclosures or lack of adequate security measures. No start up or SME can afford such hefty fines,…
The Court of Justice of the European Union produced a “landmark” decision in the case of Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner declaring Safe Harbour to be invalid. What’s this all about? In short, the Data Protection Directive (which was implemented here in the UK by the Data…
Since the hack, most of us are now familiar with Ashley Madison, the international dating website that connects married people who are looking to have an affair. The site was hacked by a group that calls itself “the Impact Team”. Many people lack sympathy for those that subscribed to this…
Information security professionals everywhere will be interested to hear that from the 3rd May 2015, the amended Computer Misuse Act 1990 (“the Act”), came into effect as a result of the changes made by sections 41 – 44 of the Serious Crime Act 2015. This means that offenders…