IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

One of the most popular examples of this are phishing emails sent around tax season , but you’re just as likely to find similar scams in the run-up to Christmas or whenever there’s a major news story, such as an election or a sports event. They are aware that any news on coronavirus will get an emotional response.

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IT Governance

MARCH 28, 2019

If you’re wondering about the effects of Brexit, the UK’s DPA (Data Protection Act) 2018 , which came into effect on the same day as the GDPR, enacts the Regulation’s requirements into UK law to ensure the same high standards of data protection legislation are in place if and when the UK leaves the EU.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Among other news: B&Q breached the personal data of 70,000 people who had been caught stealing products from its stores. Although this is obviously positive news, it doesn’t absolve Facebook of blame or make the breach any less serious. April was a month of mixed results in the UK.

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IT Governance

MARCH 17, 2020

For example, millions of employees will likely to be forced to work remotely, as the UK government prepares for a lockdown scenario. Although that will help limit the spread of the disease – which is obviously the priority – it will introduce new business risks that organisations must prepare for. What is phishing?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The second half of the year began with major data privacy news: the UK’s data protection authority, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), announced its intention to fine British Airways and Marriott International a combined £282.6 Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. million (£4.2

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The GDPR itself, which runs to 98 paragraphs—or articles, as it calls them—and which will be the new data-processing law that comes into force in May 2018 whether or not we in Parliament have agreed it, is not actually printed in the Bill. You could not make it up. Perhaps the Government could respond on that point.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 24, 2018

Stuff that a series of investigations and news articles had forced him to start thinking about. Vote Leave: the key players 17 days after an investigation opened, Vote Leave's COO deleted herself and two others from over 100 files Related: ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower Continue reading.

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