Tag: EU
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Government to reform data protection laws to spur economic growth
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden implied the regulations will become more business-friendly now the UK has left the EU. Read via Sky news.
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UK businesses and organisations who send or receive data to or from Europe
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
If you are a UK business or organisation that receives data from contacts in the EEA, you need to take extra steps to ensure that the data can continue to flow at the end of the transition period. Read the ICO post.
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EU admits it has been hard to implement GDPR
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Official report to mark two years of data protection regulation notes burden on small and medium-sized companies. Read story by Javier Espinoza in FT.com
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UK’s post-Brexit data deals ‘will go further than EU ever could’
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The government sets out a four-pronged approach to the free flow of data and data localisation with Asia-Pacific nations. Read story by Keumars Afifi-Sabet in ITPro
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Home Office committed multiple data breaches when handling the EU settlement scheme
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK home office has been blamed by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and immigration for GDPR violations, stating that it misplaced personal documents of EU residents when handling the EU settlement scheme. Read here.
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On data protection, the UK says it will go it alone. It probably won’t.
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The Prime Minister listed data protection as an area that the UK could legislate on following Brexit – but diverging from European Union rules on privacy would only complicate things. Read via ZDNet.
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UK to diverge from EU data protection rules, Johnson confirms
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The United Kingdom will seek to diverge from EU data protection rules and establish their own ‘sovereign’ controls in the field, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday (3 February). His comments came despite the EU affirming that the UK should “fully respect EU data protection rules.” Read more via Euractiv
Read MoreNIS vs. GDPR – not siblings but cousins #NISR #GDPR
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Thank you to our resident NCIS expert, Great Wall of China charity-walking Director, Julia McCarron, for this timely reminder that GDPR is not the only regulation on the horizon and whilst it might not impact everyone, we need to be aware of it. As the clock is ticking towards the need to comply with the […]
Read MoreData Protection Awareness Day 2017! #DPD17
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
We have enjoyed getting involved with Data Protection Awareness Day over the last few years and with GDPR fast approaching (next year…!), it is more important than ever to raise awareness of the importance of good quality Data Protection practices. Sometimes our contributions are serious, sometimes lighthearted but they are always useful and containing good […]
Read MoreNo more Safe Harbour…or Harbor
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
European Court of Justice has ruled that transatlantic data sharing agreement is invalid. What does this mean for UK businesses that utilise US datacentres or Cloud services? Advent IM Director Mike Gillespie, “There are issues arising from this ruling that require the urgent attention of UK businesses and they need to be aware of the […]
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