May 2018
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Not in the EU? 1 Simple Step to Mitigate your GDPR Risk
Non-EU websites: One step to minimise your GDPR risk. The GDPR is an extremely wide reaching set of rules for businesses and even individual’s websites to adhere to, no matter what size the organisation. The penalties for non-compliance could be crippling. If you’re not based in the EU, and don’t...
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What is the GDPR?
This is a very short summary, but we hope it will shed some light on this mysterious new beast. Jump to: A short summary of GDPR What are the penalties? How can I protect myself? A short summary of GDPR The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a very large,...
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Why appoint a data protection officer if we dont have to?
So you’ve read our post asking ‘do we need a Data Protection Officer’ and you’ve hopefully checked out the GDPR wording. You’ve hopefully had your legal folks review it for you also, before concluding that you don’t need to assign a Data Protection Officer. But, maybe you should anyway… There...
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Do we need a Data Protection Officer?
It’s a big question, and an important one. Article 37(1) of the GDPR requires the designation of a DPO in three specific cases. Do any of the following apply to the nature of your organisation? a public authority (except for courts acting in their judicial capacity); an organisation that carries...