Category Archives: GDPR

Information Rights Expert joins Act Now GDPR Team

Posted on Friday 20th April 2018 by

  Act Now Training is pleased to announce that Scott Sammons has joined its team of consultants. Scott is an experienced information governance practitioner having worked in both the public and private sector for 10 years, most recently as the … Continue reading →

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GDPR: The New ICO Fees Regime

Posted on Monday 26th February 2018 by

25th May 2018, when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, will see the end of the current Notification regime under the Data Protection Act 1998. Until recently, Data Controllers looked set to save a little money and … Continue reading →

Posted in Fees, GDPR, ICO, Information Security | 2 Comments

Act Now Launches New Certificate in IG for Health and Social Care

Posted on Thursday 22nd February 2018 by

Today ANT launched a new style of certificate course. It’s not a one day course, it’s not a practitioner certificate – it fits in between the two and is intended as a primer in all aspects of information law for … Continue reading →

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Act Now Launches New GDPR E-Learning Course

Posted on Tuesday 13th February 2018 by

In December, a nursing auxiliary was fined for accessing a patient’s medical records without a valid legal reason.  In November a charity employee was prosecuted after he sent spreadsheets containing the information of vulnerable clients to his personal email address … Continue reading →

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GDPR Training Courses in Dubai

Posted on Tuesday 9th January 2018 by

Act Now Training is pleased to announce two forthcoming GDPR training workshops in Dubai (UAE). The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will not just have an impact on Data Controllers and Data Processors in the European Union (EU). It will … Continue reading →

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GDPR: What’s Happening?

Posted on Monday 18th December 2017 by

If you want to avoid watching Grandad murdering “Mistletoe and Wine” over the festive season, you could escape to a lesser evil; catching up on your GDPR reading! You may have missed some of the recent GDPR publications. The Article … Continue reading →

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Act Now Launches GDPR Handbook

Posted on Tuesday 31st October 2017 by

We all know that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) cannot be read in isolation. In September, the DCMS published the Data Protection Bill. Amongst other things, it sets out how the UK Government intends to exercise its GDPR “derogations”; … Continue reading →

Posted in Article 50, Brexit, Data Protection, DP Bill, EU DP Regulation, GDPR, International, Local Authorities | 3 Comments