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The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau has so far identified 21 reports of fraud where coronavirus was mentioned since February 2020 with victims' losses so far totalling more than £800,000 in a mo

It is fair to say that the speed at which Coronavirus has spread and affected everybody has been a bit of a shock. There wasn’t a precedent for this and the UK is facing the most significant lockdow

Experts at the National Cyber Security Centre have revealed criminal phishing attacks are exploiting worries over COVID-19 The National Cyber Security Centre which operates as part of GCHQ and create

We've just published two new drip-feeds for printing off a circulating to staff on recognising and responding to subject access requests.

The Data Protection Officer (DPO) can provide support in many areas but are you aware of what we do help with? There are some more well-known areas of data protection that we would be called upon to

Updated operational guidance has been produced by Public Health England for local commissioners and schools on running the national child measurement programme (NCMP)

You may have seen the announcement in the news about the ICO fine for British Airways "Following an extensive investigation the ICO has issued a notice of its intention to fine British Airways £183.3

Please ensure that you register DPE as your DPO with the Information Commissioner's Office. To do so: To add a Data Protection Officer (DPO) email This email address is being protected from spam

One year on, and it's clear that data protection is not going away. This year, while we haven't seen significant fines (apart from the measly €50M fine for Google), there has been plenty of regulat

We've released version 1 of the Compliance Manager tool. What is it?The Compliance Manager allows you to assign any document to staff and enable the following interactions I have read and understo

The French data protection regulator, the CNIL has issued their first GPDR fine. And it has landed on Google for the sum of €50million, the largest seen yet under GDPR. The breaches of GDPR were tw

From the Information Commissioner's Office blog: A former headteacher has been fined in court for unlawfully obtaining school children’s personal data from previous schools where he worked.

 A belated Happy New Year from Data Protection Education. We wanted to let you know that the initial tranche of new tools and content will be available on the Knowledge Bank from Monday 14th January

Despite user frustrations that often result in poor passwords being used, passwords remain a key defence against unauthorised access to systems and personal data. And although the GDPR does not give

  By changing the culture of email use within an organisation will not only benefit the organisation towards GDPR compliance and beyond, it will also save a significant amount of time by reducin