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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Schrems II: ECJ Rules EU-US Privacy Shield invalid and puts a sting in the tail for Standard Contractual Clauses
...Data Protection Commissioner and alleged the EU-US Privacy Shield also does not offer sufficient protection for personal data transferred. He wanted to suspend or prohibit his personal data being tran...
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Back to school in the “new normal” – our top tips for getting ready for September
...data; pupils can ask for all their personal data held by the school or college. The deadlines for responding to a SAR in relation to ‘exam script data’ differs to the normal 30-day time l...
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Changes to Criminal Records Disclosure Regime
...Data protection issues Employers need a lawful ground to process criminal records information and must also comply with the data protection principles, including that processing should be adequate, r...
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Unlawful use of cookies: Google and Amazon receive multi-million-euro fines
...Data Protection Act requires that visitors to websites must be informed of the purpose of any action taken to access or record information already stored on their computer (or other electronic communi...
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Brexit Deal: UK–EEA free flow of data to continue for up to six months
...data protection laws (other than to align with updates to EU data protection law), or exercises any of these designated powers without consent, the interim period will automatically come to an end.Ade...
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Workplace covid tests: avoiding the legal and practical pitfalls
...data protection laws. Click here to read Emily's article. This article was first published in Employment Law Journal
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ICO fines Amex £90,000 for sending unlawful marketing emails
...Data Protection Team.
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Covert CCTV recording in the workplace – is it ever lawful?
...Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Principles The UK GDPR requires data controllers (including employers) to have a lawful ground to process personal data. There are seven data protection principles t...