At the Protecture seminar on e-Privacy at the end of November, Rowenna Fielding reminded us that PECR is about more than just consent for electronic direct marketing. I don’t think that Rowenna meant to alarm anyone, just a gentle poke …
Category Archives: Events
Launch of the IRMS Third Sector Retention and Disposal Toolkit
Categories: Accuracy, Breach, Charities, Charities: ICO, Consent, Data Protection Act 2018, Data Sharing, Events, Fundraising, GDPR, Guidance, ICO, Security, TransparencyThe Information and Records Management Society (IRMS) and Protecture were delighted to formally launch the IRMS Third Sector Retention and Disposal Toolkit and Schedule at an event in Central London last week. Attendees from a number of charities, not-for-profits and …
Clearing the haze around the GDPR maze
Categories: Brexit, Charities, Events, Fundraising, GDPRProtecture held its first GDPR-focused seminars on 20th October 2016, with over 50 delegates hearing from guest speakers from the Fundraising Regulator (CEO Stephen Dunmore and Head of Policy Gerald Oppenheim) as well as Gary Shipsey, Managing Director of Protecture. …
Human error not to blame for £180,000 Dean Street Clinic breach
Categories: EventsWe wrote last year about the breach suffered by the Dean Street HIV clinic – when a member of staff accidentally entered the 781 email addresses into the “to” field instead of the blind carbon copy (“bcc”) field when sending …
Are You EU Ready? Fundraising, Fairness and the New EU Data Protection Regulation
Categories: Charities, Consent, Events, Fundraising, GDPRProtecture recently delivered an expert seminar at CHASE 2016 on the topic “Are You EU Ready? Fundraising, Fairness and the New EU Data Protection Regulation” The slides can be found below: Download slides: Are You EU Ready?
Protecture at the IHA event
Categories: Care Homes, EventsProtecture attended the Independent Healthcare Apex Secure and Specialist Care Forum last week, Wednesday 23rd October 2013. It was great to meet so many providers, and learn about their approaches to data protection and their current and future needs. The …
Care inspector could use hidden cameras
Categories: Care Homes, Events, ICOIn the news, 15th October 2013: The new Adult Social Care Chief Inspector Andrea Sutcliffe raises the idea of using hidden cameras as part of the revamped inspection regime due in 2014. This prompted discussions and debate across the news: …
ACEVO Annual Conference, 21st November
Categories: Charities, EventsProtecture will be exhibiting at ACEVO’s Annual Conference – Funding your ambition – on 21 November at the Lancaster London Hotel.
Protecture at the 12th Annual Data Protection Compliance Conference
Categories: EventsIt was great to meet so many fellow data protection enthusiasts at the PDP Data Protection Conference yesterday (10th September). Of all the messages coming out of the conference, three stuck with me: (1) Data Protection is no longer relegated …
Protecture at the Quality in Care event, Basingstoke
Categories: Care Homes, EventsIt was great to meet so many from the Care Home sector last week at the “Quality in Care” event in Basingstoke. I hope you saw my presentation, or that we spoke at the stand… There was particular interest in …