May 2018

TRT World Roundtable with David Foster

May 30, 2018, Categories EU General Data Protection Regulation No comments

Other studio guests: Rhiannon Evans–Young, Director and Co-founder of Crest Communications; Hussein Kanji, Co–founder of Hoxton Ventures and Kate Bevan, the Editor of Which? Computing.

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May 30, 2018, Categories GDPR Handbook, Legal update, News No comments

Interviewed on the ‘zombie GDPR emails’ news story running on the BBC after I had posted the blog on LinkedIn. You can listen to my interview again here

This is an all-out attack by the zombies and it’s continuing post-25 May! They follow other zombies by sending us mindless emails saying this kind of crap:

“We’re committed to managing and safeguarding the information you give us when looking for a job. CLICK HERE TO STAY SIGNED UP.”

Or how about this:

“LET’S STAY IN TOUCH. Did you know? New privacy laws come in to effect on 25 May. This landmark new law is designed to improve your privacy rights. This is great news for online shoppers, so if you enjoy getting our promotional emails, just click below…”

Or this:

“We don’t want to lose you, so please take action NOW”

STOP! THINK! LEARN!

These emails are poin...

BSI film on Hitachi Consulting Corp becoming the first global company to achieve BS10012:2017

May 30, 2018, Categories News No comments

Watch the film here

Power-list of influences in the data privacy landscape

May 30, 2018, Categories News, Thought Leadership No comments

Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data breach offers an objective lesson in why companies should be wary of encouraging users to share contact information

May 30, 2018, Categories News, Thought Leadership No comments

Does your company have consumer data it isn’t legally authorized to possess?

Don’t be too quick to answer. Many ethical, lawfully managed businesses do have such data — and it comes from a surprising source: their customers, who inadvertently share the personal data of their family, friends, and colleagues.

The lack of awareness regarding peer-dependent privacy is one way that London-based Cambridge Analytica Ltd. was able to collect the personal information of more than 71 million Facebook users, even though only 270,000 of them agreed to take the now-bankrupt company’s app-based personality quiz. Cambridge Analytica reportedly knew what it was doing, but any compa...

You never know who you’ll bump into on a rainy afternoon in Richmond, England!

May 30, 2018, Categories Guru in a Bottle No comments

BSI makes film of Hitachi Consulting becoming the first global brand to achieve BS10012:2017 certification ahead of 25 May 2018

May 22, 2018, Categories EU General Data Protection Regulation No comments

Yesterday, I gave an interview on film about my role as a member of the team that led to Hitachi Consulting Corp becoming the first global brand to achieve BS10012:2017.The new standard was created in the wake of the GDPR and is a Personal Information Management System (PIMS). This is a significant achievement as Hitachi Consulting Corp can now demonstrate – and it’s been independently verified by the oldest standards awarding body in thew world – that it has a world-class culture of compliance. The PIMS sits at the heart of Hitachi Consulting Corp. efforts to comply with the GDPR. The short film is available here It was launched on Friday 25 May to coincide with...