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Tag Archives: Privacy
Facial Recognition in Schools: Please, sir, I want some more.
Yesterday the Financial Times reported that, “nine schools in North Ayrshire will start taking payments for school lunches by scanning the faces of pupils, claiming that the new system speeds up queues and is more Covid-secure than the card payments and fingerprint … Continue reading
Ring Doorbells, Domestic CCTV and GDPR
The Daily Mail reports today that, “A female doctor is set to be paid more than £100,000 after a judge ruled that her neighbour’s Ring smart doorbell cameras breached her privacy in a landmark legal battle which could pave the way for … Continue reading
Posted in CCTV, Data Protection, GDPR, Surveillance, Uncategorized
Tagged Data Protection, Doorbell, GDPR, Privacy, Ring, surveillance
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Ronaldo’s Data and GDPR: Who said data protection is boring?
There is an interesting story this morning on the BBC website about a group of footballers threatening legal action and seeking compensation for the trade in their personal data. The use of data is widespread in every sport. It is not just used … Continue reading
Posted in GDPR, Human Rights, Information Rights, Privacy
Tagged football, GDPR, Privacy, rights
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Online GDPR Practitioner Certificate: Going from Strength to Strength
Act Now Training would like to congratulate all our delegates who have recently completed our online GDPR Practitioner Certificate. At the start of the Pandemic, we decided to offer our flagship classroom based GDPR Practitioner Certificate as an online option. We redesigned the … Continue reading
Posted in BCS, Certificated course, Data Protection, GDPR, ISEB, Uncategorized
Tagged BCS, Certificated Course, Data Protection, GDPR, ISEB, Privacy
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Covid-19, GDPR and Temperature Checks
Emma Garland writes… Many countries have now been in some form of lockdown for a considerable length of time. As some of the lockdown measures are slowly being eased, one of the possible solutions to prevent a “second wave” is … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, COVID-19, Data Retention, GDPR, Human Rights, Privacy, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, Data Retention, GDPR, Human Rights, Privacy
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The NHS COVID 19 Contact Tracing App: Part 3 The Human Rights Angle
Everyone will agree that the government needs to do everything it can to prevent the further spread of the Coronavirus and to “save lives” (except if your name is Dominic Cummings -Ed). However, there is much less consensus about the … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, COVID-19, Human Rights, NHS APP, Privacy, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, Human Rights, NHS APP, Privacy
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Coronavirus and Police Use of Drones
The police have an important rule to play in the current coronavirus lockdown. However their actions must at all times be proportionate, transparent and (above all) lawful. Only yesterday, British Transport Police admitted they had wrongly charged a woman who was … Continue reading
Amazon: What does it know about us?
By Susan Wolf If you are like me, and currently self-isolating, then it is entirely possible that you are spending more time than usual browsing the internet, doing online shopping, buying books on your Kindle or watching movies on Amazon … Continue reading
PrivSec London Conference: Act Now Announces Winners of Free Tickets
Act Now is pleased to announce the winners of the 7 free delegate tickets for the PrivSec London Conference taking place on 4th and 5th February 2020. We are exhibiting at this two day event which will deliver top-level strategic content, insights, networking, and discussion around data … Continue reading
GDPR Subject Access Time Limits Reconsidered
Just like its predecessor (DPA 2018), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives Data Subjects a right to make a Subject Access Request (SAR) to a Data Controller. This means that they can obtain: Confirmation that their data is being … Continue reading
Posted in Data Protection, GDPR, Privacy, Subject Access, Uncategorized
Tagged Data Protection, GDPR, Privacy, Subject Access
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