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British Airways hack could provoke the wrath of the GDPR
More than 380,000 customer transactions on the British Airways website were compromised by hackers which included credit card information. If it’s determined that British Airways didn’t do enough to protect consumer information, it could be facing a fine of up to 4 percent of its annual revenue (that works out to about £500 million). Read […]
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Indian shirt company’s proactive GDPR compliance
GDPR is affecting everyone in some form or the other, which was obvious when I received this email on the GDPR compliance process from an online shirt company in India on the 24th of May 2018 (just a day before the law comes in force). They announced they are in the process of GDPR compliance […]
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Cookie policy, old EU directives, ICO and GDPR
Based on two European Directives, ICO had pushed websites to warn users when they use cookies and an explicit consent was needed. The deadline was 25 May 2011. After a lot of initial confusion and last minute ugly popups appearing on some websites, ICO in 2012 agreed for implicit consent in some cases and even […]
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Quick guidelines to GDPR
Synopsis As many of you may be aware the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted on 27th April 2016 and becomes enforceable from 25 May 2018. GDPR applies to you if you are a data controller or processor of personal information. We appreciate that many organisations might not have the resources to manage GDPR […]