The Data Protection Blog
October 22, 2020
A Legitimate Interest Impact Assessments (LIA) is a specific type of risk assessment, and as such, needs to be treated with some degree of gravity. If […]
October 19, 2020
After a long wait POPIA is now here. South Africa promulgated the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) on the 1st July 2020. This has been […]
October 16, 2020
When looking over what happened this week, there were a couple of things I could talk about: EDPB’s guidelines on relevant and reasoned objection under the […]
October 16, 2020
When the Department for Education (DfE) received complaints regarding how the department managed its National Pupil Database, the response from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) was […]
October 9, 2020
The Data Protection Authority of Hamburg (HmbBfDI) fined H&M, one of the largest global clothing retailers, €35.2 million for excessive monitoring of employees. This should highlight […]
October 8, 2020
Social media has become an undeniable force in people’s lives today, and this applies in nearly every corner of the globe. In fact, there are nearly […]
October 7, 2020
We tend to think of data as relatively static. Systems might be updated from time to time, but most of the time the information is organised […]
October 6, 2020
Reflecting back on my post from Friday on joint controllers, I thought it might be useful to reflect on a couple of instances where your data […]