GDPR

The term ‘personal data’ as per GDPR is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.  Personal data can be identified through the exposure of special category data, such as ethnicity, political opinion, religious views, health trade union membership, and biometric data.  To protect the rights of an individual when processing personal data, businesses […]

The new National Cyber Strategy is a plan to ensure that the UK remains confident, capable and resilient in this fast-moving digital world, says Gov.uk. In the past year alone, 1,400 UK businesses were able to combine £8.9b through the accumulation and security of data. With such growth, however, also comes an element of uncertainty. […]

Russia has demonstrated its ability to engage in direct cyber-attacks against governments in the past. In 2015, Russian hackers breached the Ukrainian power grid, resulting in nationwide outages. In 2017, hacking and installation of malware on Ukraine’s accounting software resulted in widespread interference, causing global disruption to the economic sector. On the 14th of February, […]

Following from last week, this post will look further into the updated cross-border data-sharing agreement between Europe and the US. We’re going to take a look at the EU’s authority to legalise this agreement, and the process behind establishing it.  The EU Commission and the adequacy decision  The EU Commission is the lead authority that […]

The European Union and the US have announced a new foundation for an international data-sharing agreement. In recent years, the US and EU had established agreements for the use of cross-border data transfers. For any country outside of the EU to transfer personal data, a safeguard needs to be relied upon, which usually requires the […]