Launch of the IRMS Third Sector Retention and Disposal Toolkit

November 14, 2018 / Accuracy, Breach, Charities, Charities: ICO, Consent, Data Protection Act 2018, Data Sharing, Events, Fundraising, GDPR, Guidance, ICO, Security, Transparency

The 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 companies heard Scott Sammons, Chair of the IRMS, argued passionately for the benefits of record …

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Equifax – 12 lessons to learn

November 5, 2018 / Accuracy, Breach, Brexit, Charities, Charities: ICO, Consent, Data Protection Act 2018, Data Sharing, DFE, Fines, Fundraising, GDPR, Guidance, ICO, Public Information, Security, Transparency

As the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA98) comes to an end, we have a first! The first maximum fine under the old law was issued in September to Equifax Ltd. If you’ve heard any of the Data Protection Leads here at Protecture speak about basic security issues facing organisations, you will have heard us talk …

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Trust, Transparency and Data Protection

October 15, 2018 / Charities, Charities: ICO, Data Protection Act 2018, Fundraising, GDPR, Transparency

Charities rely on personal data more than ever before, whether they are processing a donation, running a fundraising event, or providing services. Supporters and service users must give their personal data to you; in some cases, such as prospect research, you will gather the data indirectly, form publicly-available sources. In all cases, trust is key. Two …

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Cookie D’oh!

October 9, 2018 / Breach, Brexit, Charities, Charities: ICO, Consent, Data Protection Act 2018, Data Sharing, Fines, Fundraising, GDPR, ICO, Public Information, Security, Transparency

With the news that the changes to ePrivacy law have now been delayed until 2020, now is a good time to evaluate whether your organisation’s practices are already in line with existing electronic privacy law. The ePrivacy Regulation is likely to strengthen the current provisions of PECR in similar ways to which GDPR strengthened previous …

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What would you say? 20 questions from the ICO

September 12, 2018 / Charities, Consent, Data Protection Act 2018, Data Sharing, DFE, Fines, Fundraising, Guidance, ICO, Public Information, Security, Transparency

What would you say? 20 questions from the ICO The findings from the ICO’s latest Information Risk reviews highlight the many and varied areas that data protection risk touches upon. We turned the findings into the 20 key questions you should ask yourself about data protection at your organisations. Do you have a clear Data …

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Have You Reddit?

August 8, 2018 / Breach, Security

On the 1st of August a hugely popular website, Reddit, announced that it had been hacked. If you’ve not seen it, Reddit is a vaguely social network (explored further below) where registered members can post links, news and discuss almost anything on a series of message boards. Users need an email address and password but are seemingly anonymous …

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Data Protection Act 2018- What Does It Mean To You?

July 10, 2018 / Charities, Data Protection Act 2018, GDPR, Guidance, ICO

In all the hyperbole and misinformation surrounding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in recent weeks, it may have been easy to miss the UK passing its own updated data protection legislation – the imaginatively titled Data Protection Act 2018 (the Act), which helpfully also came into force on 25th May. This replaces the Data Protection Act 1998, which has …

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Facebook and ‘CA’ – not Cambridge Analytica, but Custom Audiences

May 2, 2018 / Charities, Consent, Data Sharing, GDPR, ICO, Public Information, Security, Transparency

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you will have noticed that Facebook’s business practices have been coming under the microscope of public scrutiny. It’s been well-known for a long time among the data protection and marketing communities that Facebook operates by harvesting, generating and acquiring large amounts of …

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