If you are not keeping up with your DSARs, you are not alone. Last week, the Information Commissioner's Office issued an enforcement notice to Bristol City Council for failing to respond to hundreds of Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs). Some of these DSARs dated...
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DSPT: Why Care Providers Need to Comply
Establishing Best Practices in Data Security and Patient Trust The Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT) is a critical framework designed to ensure that care providers, including those in the health and social care sectors, adhere to stringent data security...
Cyber Essentials Certification: keep your business data safe
With data breaches in the UK increasing by 46% year on year and over 80% of UK businesses falling victim to a successful attack this costs the UK economy £3.1bn between April ’21 and April ’22. This also resulted in ICO fines of £44m being collected against...
GDPR Adoption…the reality
It is almost four and a half years since the GDPR became enforced in May of 2018. Since that date, when the world went mad over consent, subscriptions and other connection requests that most of the requestors ignored, we have had Harry and Megan, Brexit, Covid-19 and...
Data protection health-checks
Why is a Data Protection Health Check important? GDPR, other regulations and data protection best practices are not one time operations. They aren't set and forget They are on-going, living projects that require constant attention and maintenance. The GDPR Compliance...





