Google moves UK data to to the United States following Brexit
Google has announced it will move British users' data from Irish servers to the United States following the completion of Brexit, with...
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Steve Cullen
Feb 12, 20202 min read
ICO Code of Practice to protect children’s privacy online
On 21st January 2020 the ICO published its final Age Appropriate Design Code, a set of 15 standards that online services should meet to...
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Steve Cullen
Feb 12, 20201 min read
Brexit GDPR position
As I have been asked for confirmation of what happens regarding GDPR by quite a few schools I thought I would post a clarification. The...
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Steve Cullen
Jan 13, 20201 min read
First organisation in the UK penalised for breaching GDPR
The ICO announced on 20th December 2019 that it had fined Doorstep Dispensaree Ltd, a London-based pharmacy, £275,000 for failure to...
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Steve Cullen
Dec 18, 20191 min read
Season's greetings
Well, another year is almost at an end... I would just take the time to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my clients and...
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Steve Cullen
Nov 8, 20191 min read
Reporting a data breach to the ICO
I am frequently asked how to get hold of the form to report a data breach to the ICO. It is available at: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisa...
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Steve Cullen
Nov 8, 20191 min read
Termly Audit of School Information Governance Compliance
This is just a quick reminder that it is time for my subscription schools to complete their termly review of data protection activities...
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Steve Cullen
Nov 8, 20191 min read
Subject access request timescales
Everyone should know by now that the deadline for responding to a subject access request under the General Data Protection Regulation and...
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Steve Cullen
Oct 21, 20192 min read
Data processors processing data away from school
I've had several queries recently regarding whether it is acceptable for a company acting as a data processor to process information on...
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Steve Cullen
Sep 30, 20191 min read
FOI publication scheme
There has recently been increased awareness of the need for state schools and academies, which are classified as public authorities, to...
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Steve Cullen
Sep 6, 20191 min read
ICO toolkit for local councils
For those of you working in local government, I thought that I would alert you to the fact that the ICO has now released an...
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Steve Cullen
Sep 6, 20191 min read
Welcome back!
Hopefully school staff are settling back into the swing of things after the summer holidays. I trust you are all refreshed and ready for...
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Steve Cullen
Jul 19, 20191 min read
BBC News article on Child Mental Health
I was very pleased to see an article on last night's BBC teatime news bulletin raising awareness of the lack of funding for child mental...
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Steve Cullen
Jul 19, 20191 min read
Decommissioning of BGFL by April 2020
On Monday 15th July 2019, Link2ICT announced that schools internet by BGFL is to stop in April 2020. This means Birmingham schools will...
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Steve Cullen
Jul 8, 20191 min read
ICO fine for EE direct marketing breach
The ICO has fined telecoms company EE Limited £100,000 for sending over 2.5 million direct marketing messages to customers without...
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Steve Cullen
Jul 8, 20191 min read
ICO post on GDPR... One Year On
The ICO has commented on how they see GDPR, having had a year to bed in. It can be found at: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-ev...
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Steve Cullen
Jul 8, 20191 min read
Too many minor incidents being reported to the ICO
My thanks to Tom Bill from Hamstead Hall for pointing this article out to me: https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ico-receives-hundreds-of-unnecess...
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Steve Cullen
Jul 8, 20191 min read
ICO now imposing fines under GDPR
British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach The BBC website has reported BA faces a fine of £183 million for a data breach in...
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Steve Cullen
Jun 4, 20191 min read
IRMS toolkit for schools
Just a brief message to let everyone know that the Information and Records Management Society have release a revised 2019 edition of the...
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Steve Cullen
Jun 4, 20191 min read
GDPR... one year on
I can't believe it is now over a year since GDPR came into force! I think it has inevitably been overshadowed by the prolonged Brexit...
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