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Podcast No.9 - General Data Protection Regulation
...Data Protection Regulation Piers Leigh-Pollitt from workplace law specialists, Doyle Clayton talks about the new European General Data Protection Regulation.
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Employer vicariously liable for employee’s personal data breaches
...Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”) and sentenced to eight years in prison. The employees brought claims against Morrisons for breach of statutory duty (breach of the data protection principles in...
Should employers always look on the Brightside?
...Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (“TUPE”) and asked for more information about when the services were to be outsourced and to which law firms. Brightside declined to comment. Mr Rawlinson cl...
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Mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting: what is the Government proposing?
...data will be “special category personal data” for GDPR purposes and so employers will need to comply with data protection legislation when handling it and ensure that individuals cannot be identified ...
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Morrisons loses appeal in personal data breach case
...Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”) and sentenced to eight years in prison. Over 5,000 Morrisons’ employees claimed compensation for breach of statutory duty (breach of the data protection princip...
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Google hit with €50 million GDPR fine
...data security breach), organisations were waiting to see how data protection authorities would approach fines under the new legislation. The level of Google’s fine is therefore highly significant, as ...
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ELLINT expands into eastern Europe with Romanian boutique Suciu
...Data Protection team where The Legal 500 recommended her for her work advising on sensitive litigation and senior level departures. Doyle Clayton was a founder member of ELLINT in 2013. ELLINT’s team...
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Supreme Court rules criminal record disclosure regime is unlawful
...Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). In addition to finding a lawful basis for the processing, employers must also comply with the data protection principles, including that processing should be adequ...
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Organisations using Privacy Shield need to update privacy notices in case of a no-deal Brexit
...data transfers between the EU and the USA (certifying that adequate protections are in place for personal data transferred to the US). Similar arrangements apply for data transfers between Switz...
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ICO orders HMRC to delete 5 million biometric records
...data. It had also not allowed them to agree or disagree to HMRC using it. This meant that it did not have valid consent to using the data and had breached the General Data Protection Regulation. ...
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Call for law requiring employers to investigate discrimination and harassment complaints
...data and report annually on the number and type of discrimination and harassment complaints/grievances received and the outcome the number of settlement agreements entered containing...
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British Airways faces record data breach fine
...data breach fine British Airways is set to receive the largest ever fine for a data breach. The proposed £183.39 million fine surrounds breaches of its security systems for customers’ data. The Infor...
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High Court rejects challenge to Data Protection Act’s immigration exemption
...Data Protection Act’s immigration exemption The High Court has ruled that the immigration exemption under the Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”) is lawful (R (Open Rights Group & the3million) v Secretar...
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Whistleblowing: disclosures made in defence of poor performance could still be in the public interest
...Data Protection Act. She also raised concerns about other data protection breaches, including having to store a service user’s personal file containing sensitive personal information in an unlocked dr...
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Has your business paid its data protection fee?
...data protection fee? The ICO has launched a campaign to remind organisations of the need to pay their annual data protection fee. How do businesses register for the annual data protection fee? ...
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ICO fines pharmacy £275,000 for careless storing of personal data
...data it held and criticised Doorstep’s “cavalier attitude” to data protection. It concluded it had retained some data longer than necessary and its data protection policies and processing records were...
ICO issues data guidance surrounding coronavirus
...data Health data is ‘special category’ data. Controllers therefore need to consider their additional lawful bases for processing this data. Organisations have a duty to protect the health and...
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Final marks to be set by teachers for Summer 2020 exams… a guide for students
...data can be disclosed to students and parents after a period of time, but only after the final results have been issued. Will students have this data available in order to make an appeal? If not, it m...
ICO issues new guidance on COVID-19 workplace testing
...data privacy compliance and keep records. This can be done through a Data Protection Impact Assessment (“DPIA”). A DPIA sets out: The activity being proposedThe data protection risksWhether the propo...
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ICO proposes second GDPR fine in two days
...data breach concerned millions of EEA citizens. As with the ICO’s notice to British Airways, this fine is huge and dwarfs the maximum penalty under the previous law (£500,000 under the Data Pro...