Sensitive data is information that must be protected against unauthorized access. Access to sensitive data should be limited through sufficient data security and information security practices designed to prevent unauthorized disclosure and data breaches. Your organization may have to protect sensitive data for ethical or legal requirements, personal privacy, regulatory reasons, trade secrets and other […]
Before you decide to collect your employees vaccination status, you should be clear about what you are trying to achieve and how recording staff vaccination status will help you to achieve this. Whether your employee has been vaccinated is their private health information and is therefore special category data. Your use of this data must […]
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As we all know, Covid 19 had a huge impact on many businesses last year, and it is still here this year, a lot of the employees are now working from home. Plenty of companies are planning to continue this, even after the pandemic finishes, so there are certain situations/risks where you need to take care […]
Short but very beneficial post to remind you to be extra careful when you send out emails, text messages, or even if you send letters in the post. You will deal with high number SAR’s even if you sent out a very friendly, quite legitimate email to your customers but forgot to put your usual named contact details. […]
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One of the most important documents in GDPR regulative, that your company needs to have a special focus on it is the Privacy policy. You must make sure your Privacy Policy is GDPR complaint, and provides all the info that is required. Here at GDPR Local we help you achieve this, and we share you […]
Here at GDPRlocal, we get lots of questions about what exactly an EU Representative is, what they do and whether your business actually needs one. We’ve produced a list of our most frequently asked questions to help you better understand this little-known piece of the GDPR. What is an EU Representative? An EU Representative is […]
The ICO recently released the results of a survey they created as part of their strategic plan to examine the general public’s trust in organisations that use their personal data. The survey was produced as a key time, as many people are now online more than ever due to working from home. The ICO found […]
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Breaching the GDPR can cost you up to €20 million, or 4% of annual global turnover, whichever is highest. This means you want to avoid fines wherever possible. We have compiled the three biggest GPDR related fines of 2020 to show you what went wrong, and how you can avoid making these costly errors. 3. […]
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If you transfer data outside of the EU, you now need to ensure that you have completed a risk assessment in addition to the Standard Contractual Clauses you should already have in place. The rules on data transfer changed at the end of July, which means action must be taken now. To help you get […]
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GDPRs never going to be simple, but unfortunately getting it wrong can lead to penalties and fines! Even the most experienced Data Experts can make mistakes, so it’s always good to be in the know about what the most common, yet easily fixable, mistakes are. Here are the five most common GDPR mistakes that we’ve […]
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