The Bounty Ruling – An Expensive Lesson

The Bounty Ruling – An Expensive Lesson

Bounty (UK) Limited, the pregnancy and parenting club, has been fined £400K by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for sharing personal data of some 14m people with a number of organisations including credit reference and marketing agencies...
GDPR – Polish Regulator Issues First Fine

GDPR – Polish Regulator Issues First Fine

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has announced that the regulator in Poland (UODO) has imposed its first fine under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). While details of the company involved have not yet been released, the breach of the regulation...
GDPR – 5 Steps to Real Data Security

GDPR – 5 Steps to Real Data Security

Many organisations seem to think that compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is simply about the right wording on their privacy policy, a cookie consent plug-in for the web site and getting explicit consent from their marketing...