07 Feb Charities need help to get to grips with data protection changes
by Daniel Fluskey for the Guardian 29 September 2017 A worrying number of UK charities are yet to take any steps to prepare for the new UK law on data protection. Our survey...
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06 Feb #CyberSafeLambeth event slides 5th and 6th February
#CyberSafeLambeth from The Integrate Agency CIC...
28 Jan Only 44 per cent of charities have heard of GDPR
26 January 2018, by David Ainsworth for Civil Society online Only 44 per cent of charities have heard of the General Data Protection Regulation, according to a survey released yesterday by...
22 Jan ICO investigates Age UK after two data breaches
by Kirsty Weasley for Civil Society online 22 January 2018 Age UK lost the personal details for current and former staff in two separate data breaches at the end of last...
20 Jan Third Party relationships under GDPR
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulates the relationship between controllers and processors. A controller is a person or company that determines why and how personal data is processed....
20 Jan WTF is GDPR?
Posted Jan 20, 2018 by Natasha Lomas (@riptari) for TechCrunch.com European Union lawmakers proposed a comprehensive update to the bloc’s data protection and privacy rules in 2012. Their aim: To take account...
17 Jan Cancer Research hopes to reap rewards from embracing GDPR changes early
By Rebecca Stewart-17 January 2018 for The Drum Cancer Research UK has embraced the looming GDPR regulation early as it looks to turn what could be a threat to fundraising into...
16 Jan Firms buy insurance ‘in mad panic’ as cyber-attacks soar
By Matthew Wall, Technology of Business editor for BBC News online, 16 January 2018 With cyber-attacks increasing in frequency and severity, many companies are turning to insurance to cover their mounting losses. But...
04 Dec You Can’t Secure 100% of Your Data 100% of the Time
by Shuman Ghosemajumder DECEMBER 04, 2017 for Harvard Business Review Over three billion credentials were reported stolen last year. This means that cybercriminals possess usernames and passwords for more than three billion...
24 Nov DATA PROTECTION AND GDPR – FIVE THINGS FOR TRUSTEES TO KNOW
Posted on November 24, 2017 by Elizabeth Chamberlain for NCVO Last week at NCVO’s Trustee Conference I chaired a session on data protection and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), aimed at...