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 …
Fundraising Success – Navigating the new legal landscape
Categories: Charities, Consent, Events, Fundraising, GDPRProtecture and Action Planning recently delivered an expert seminar “Fundraising Success – Navigating the new legal landscape” A free copy of the slides can be found here: download slides: Fundraising Success The seminar looked at: 1. Where are we now – …
Fundraising Success
Categories: Charities, Events, GDPRProtecture and Action Planning recently updated their expert seminar “Fundraising Success – Navigating the new legal landscape” With the Fundraising Regulator website going live just the day before, the session provided to be another engaging discussion on how to manage …
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? Should you have any questions …
Time for a Data Protection Review?
Categories: EventsWe are Protecture – data protection specialists We are offering free one hour Data Protection Reviews across the country. Organisations are holding increasing amounts of personal information: on beneficiaries and service users as well as funders, stakeholders and employees. The …
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: …