Data protection compliance in direct marketing data broking sector on regulator’s radar
Wake Smith’s Holly Dobson, expert in GDPR, looks at the latest enforcement to be handed out. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a detailed enforcement notice on Experian for failing to improve…
Data protection and your dental practice
Any company in Europe that stores data and can personally identify individuals is subject to the GDPR principles – and of course dental practices fall into this category. Most practices are in a good position to…
Regulator fines Doorstop Dispensaree Limited £275,000 for data protection breach
The Data Protection Regulator, (the Information Commissioner’s Office), has now imposed penalty and enforcement notices on a pharmacy business supplying medicines to customers and care homes. The business was found…
Do you transfer personal data to a US company?
An extraordinary amount of businesses in this country, particularly businesses which capture personal data via websites, transfer EU citizens’ data to US companies. Up to now providing that the GDPR requirements…
Charities – are you aware of your data protection obligations?
As part of the data protection reform coming into effect from 25 May this year there will be new notification and registration procedures. It is important that all organisations check the requirements and the fees…
Vanquis Bank Limited fined £75k for breach of direct marketing rules
Vanquis Bank Limited has been fined £75,000 by the Information Commission Office (ICO) for breach of the Data Protection Act (‘DPA’) and electronic communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003) (‘PECR’). There…
Data protection reforms – what do I need to know and when?
Data protection reform is less than a year away. If you are a business owner or key decision maker or involved in compliance you need to know now what is coming so as to plan for it. Wake Smith director Holly…
The costs of a Data Protection breach are more than financial
As businesses prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new E-privacy Directive the costs of a data breach has been reinforced by the news that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)…
Court of Appeal Decision: Data Protection and Rights to Access Data
Following a recent Court of Appeal case underlining that the motive for pursuing a Data Subject Access Request (SAR) was irrelevant (i.e. a back door route to get information to support litigation) comes a decision…
Data Protection EU - US Privacy Shield Framework Adopted
In a series of dramatic events which would make a good drama but which would be too long to include in this note, the European Court invalidated the regime allowing EU and US companies to transfer data. The so called…
