Two lessons from CNIL fining Google under GDPR Last week, CNIL, the French data protection agency, handed Google the largest ever GDPR penalty (€50m) for its lack of transparency in how it collected and used personal data for personalised advertising. This is of course a landmark case in the implementation of GDPR. Importantly, it also…
UPDATE 2: The Data Privacy Periodic Table Today is Data Protection Day, or Data Privacy Day if you are outside Europe. It is a special day in the privacy industry calendar. It marks the Council of Europe’s Convention 108 and it being opened for signature on this day in 1981, and celebrates how far we…
Data Privacy News: What’s in a name? What the Uber fines teach us about local data privacy enforcement The Uber data breach of 2016 is creating quite the ripple effect. Most obviously, the hack’s revelation, and the media furore that accompanied it, caused numerous boards and management teams to ask the dreaded question of their…
Yesterday was our annual IT innovation event, Transform – this year dedicated entirely to the practicalities of AI. It was attended by business owners and senior IT representatives from business across Jersey and Guernsey, keen to understand more about AI’s capability and to better understand the specifics of how AI can be put to work in their businesses.
Data Privacy News: Privacy Shield – not the same old story, for a change Privacy Shield is an EU-instigated unilateral agreement that obliges the US to protect the personal data of US citizens that came into force on 1 Aug 2016. It’s fair to say that since then, Privacy Shield has not been considered the…
Data Privacy News: Equifax, AggregateIQ and what they say about the UK ICO Data privacy in the UK has hardly been a quiet topic in recent months, but there have been two news stories from the last few weeks of particular note. They are each remarkable individually. Put side by side, they show a trend…
Data Privacy News: How we have been applying Brazil’s new General Data Protection Law Back in August, Brazil approved its General Data Protection Law (or the LGPD, standing for the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais in Portugese). It will come into effect in early 2020, echoing the approximate timeframe of the GDPR’s implementation…
UPDATE: The Data Privacy Periodic Table The launch of the Data Privacy Periodic Table earlier this month was a roaring success. We’ve received some excellent feedback, and some people are even printing it off for their office walls! Some of the comments we’ve received: “Not seen anything like this before.” “Very useful for the project…
Calligo passes annual external audits for ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Calligo is delighted to announce that it has passed two fundamental compliance audit requirements for the provision of its IT and Business Cloud Services: ISO 9001:2015 – Quality Management System ISO/IEC 27001:2013 – Information Security Management System What this means for our customers …
The Data Privacy Periodic Table Today we’re launching our Data Privacy Periodic Table – the first ever collection of the key “elements” of the data privacy world, regularly updated as new elements come to light. It is intended to help privacy professionals better understand the industry in which they work, and shed light on its…