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June 2022
Businesses and other organisations are bracing themselves for proposed changes to UK data protection rules, which are currently modelled on the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), now that the UK has left the EU.
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May 2022
Employers will welcome new guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) designed to help them continue to comply with data protection laws now that COVID-19 restrictions have been removed.
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May 2022
Businesses and other organisations will welcome guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) ‘Ransomware and data protection compliance’, aimed at helping them comply with their data protection obligations if they are the victim of a ransomware attack.
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March 2022
Organisations that transfer individuals’ personal data out of the UK to a country that the UK does not recognise as having adequate data protection laws need to reconsider which contractual clauses they use in their data transfer agreements, following the UK’s introduction of new standard clauses from 21 March 2022.
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October 2021
Organisations can now apply to be certified under three new schemes approved by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), with certification providing evidence that they meet the standards set by each scheme and are handling personal data properly and lawfully when carrying out the activities covered by it.
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October 2021
A monthly checklist from Atom Content Marketing highlighting new and pending laws, regulations, codes of practice and rulings that could have an impact on your business.
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September 2021
Organisations providing online services to children up to 18, or online services that children are likely to access, should ensure they are now complying with the Age Appropriate Design Code published by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which took full effect from 2 September 2020.
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August 2021
The UK government has updated its guidance for UK organisations that receive and send personal data from and to the European Economic Area (the EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) or which operate there, following the recent data protection adequacy decision by the EU.
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August 2021
A monthly checklist from Atom Content Marketing highlighting new and pending laws, regulations, codes of practice and rulings that could have an impact on your business.
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June 2021
Employers whose employees are allowed to use their own phones, computers or tablets, private email accounts and messaging services, or personal accounts on social or business media such as Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp or Instagram for work purposes should ensure they are able to require their employees to give them access to personal data held on those phones, accounts etc where this is required to comply with data protection laws.