A former employee of a Milton Keynes hospital trust has been prosecuted for accessing patient records without authorisation. Michelle Harrison of Milton Keynes, inappropriately accessed the records of 12 patients outside of her role as receptionist/general assistant in the Orthotics Department at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust between March 2016 and January 2017. […]
Breaches and the lesson from MyFitnessPal
A company has got it right. MyFitnessPal suffered a data breach: that’s worrying, but it is how it dealt with it that is impressing privacy experts. A data breach will happen. Experts on data privacy keep telling us that. Sure, under GDPR, you need to take all reasonable steps to minimise the risk. But what […]
GDPR Summit London: What is privacy by design?
Mark Thompson, Global Privacy Advisory Field at KPMG, took to the stage today (23rd April) at the latest GDPR Summit London, the topic: Embracing Privacy by Design. Privacy by design, explained Mark, is about building privacy into the design, operation and management of IT systems, networks and business processes. But what this means to a […]
GDPR and the financial services sector: ready? set? go?
Few industries are as heavily regulated as financial services, but with limited resources, competing pressures and the data challenges presented by legacy infrastructure – just how ready will be the sector be by May 25th? What do the statistics say? Whilst many people are becoming increasingly cognisant and concerned about their personal data, and how […]
Five reasons why small firms need to take the GDPR seriously
Personal data is essential to modern businesses. It has been described as “the new oil”. How companies handle, use, and market themselves through the use of personal data, is essential. However, there is a new regulation coming into force on 25th May that changes the rules in relation to personal data. The General Data Protection […]
Please do not feed the phish
We’ve all heard the phishing attack stories that start with someone receiving an email that requests an urgent invoice review or password change and ends with a data breach where personal information is compromised, and money is lost. Although many of us may roll our eyes at the possibility of falling for such an obvious […]
Speaker Spotlight: Ivana Bartoletti
Gemserv’s Principal Consultant in Privacy and Data Protection, Ivana Bartoletti, will be speaking at GDPR Summit: London, coming to 155 Bishopsgate on April 23rd. Ivana brings many years’ experience accrued working in public and private sectors, in senior positions in the NHS, Barclays and Sky. In her current role at professional services provider, Gemserv, Ivana […]
Where are you in your GDPR journey?
At first glance, it may seem strange to be asking you where you are in your GDPR journey when enforcement for the regulation begins on May 25 — which is now less than 50 days away. After all, GDPR was approved way back in April 2016, and here at IBM we’ve been talking and blogging […]
West Yorkshire firms fined for nuisance calls to TPS subscribers
Two firms in West Yorkshire have been fined by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for calling people registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). Bradford-based Energy Saving Centre Ltd, which offers services such as replacement windows and doors and guttering, made seven million calls over a seven month period without screening them against the TPS […]
Facebook, facial recognition and GDPR
Now Facebook is seeking permission to use facial recognition software – is it off its face? When George Orwell wrote his famous book, 1984, technology was not like it is today. Facial recognition software was not a concept Orwell was familiar with, but if he had he been, it is not hard to imagine how Big […]
GDPR Summit London: James McDowell, Director of CyberSecurity Services, Blackberry
Blackberry’s Director of CyberSecurity Services, James McDowell will be sharing his views as a keynote speaker at next week’s GDPR Summit London. James will be among a number of industry leaders bringing their expertise to the conference at 155 Bishopsgate on Monday, which is designed to help organisations understand the requirements of the forthcoming General […]