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Startups: Plan ahead to avoid costly legal disputes (part IV)
...Data protection obligations As you will likely be processing personal data of your staff, clients, customers and users of your product, you will have to comply with data protection obligations and you...
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No Safe Harbour
...protection. Each Members State’s data protection authorities have to be able to determine whether the transfer of personal data to a country outside the EEA complies with the EU Data Protection Dire...
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Dismissal for Disobeying Instruction not to Contact the Information Commissioner’s Office was Fair
...data to her home computer. Mr Barton emailed the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) to seek advice and disclosed the information he had received from his colleague. Later that day he relayed ...
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GRIP Rating Scheme Introduced to Help Prevent Slips
...data for use in selecting slip resistant footwear as a control measure to prevent slips. Footwear selection should be informed by a risk assessment. For low hazard environments One Star or Two Star fo...
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Enforced Subject Access Unlawful from 10 March 2015
...Data Protection Act 1998 provides that this practice is unlawful but that section has not been brought into force. However the Government has now confirmed that s56 will come into force on 10 March 20...
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Fit for Work Guidance Issued
...data protection; employer involvement; Return to Work Plans; and further information. Employers are recommended to update their sickness absence policies to reflect the availability of Fit for Wo...
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Updated CCTV Code of Practice Published
...data protection code of practice for surveillance cameras. The new code reflects advances in surveillance technologies since the CCTV code was last updated in 2008 and explains the data protection iss...
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Employer Stopped from Providing Reference Containing Details of Disciplinary Allegations and Sickness Record
...data protection law and can advise on data protection issues arising throughout the employment relationship, from recruitment, through employment to termination. Please contact Piers Leigh-Pollitt fo...
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Compulsory Equal Pay Audits: Latest Developments
...data protection laws) where it must remain for three years. The employer will also have to inform all those about whom gender pay information was included in the audit where they can obtain a copy. W...
The Right to be Forgotten: What it means for HR
...data controllers who must therefore comply with the full range of data protection obligations. Therefore, where data about a person is inadequate, no longer relevant, excessive or out of date they ca...
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Data Controller First Port of Call for Data Protection Complaints
...Data Protection Complaints New guidance issued by the Information Commissioner indicates that anyone wishing to complain that their data is being processed in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 s...
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Data Protection Subject Access Code Updated
Data Protection Subject Access Code Updated The Data Protection Subject Access Code, published in August 2013, has been revised. The new version of the Code clarifies a number of points which the Inf...
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Enforced Subject Access Requests to be Outlawed
...Data Protection Act 1998 provides that this practice is unlawful but that section has not been brought into force. However the Government announced recently that it plans to bring s56 into force shor...
Caveat emptor? Employers beware!
...data protection laws will apply so that if they consult and record online information about a candidate they will be processing personal data. A person's postings on social media sites or their social...
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Covert Video Surveillance Did Not Make Dismissal Unfair
...data protection obligations in relation to monitoring. It had not considered any of the matters set out in the Data Protection Code, such as carrying out an impact assessment and G had a “legitimate e...