The UK is due to leave European Union on the 29th of March 2019. After lengthy negotiations with the EU, the UK are finalising their exit deal, which lays out what the UK’s relationship with the EU will look like after the UK are no longer a member state. The GDPR is a far-reaching data […]
Data Privacy Blog
GDPR News Bytes: 30th November 2018
Nov. 20 The primary cause of healthcare data breaches is internal neglect, not external hackers, report researchers from Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan. Researchers reviewed over 1,000 data breach cases over the past seven years and discovered that internal factors such as “unauthorized access or disclosure” made up 53% of data breach causes, […]
Sovy Announce ISME Partnership
We are pleased to announce our partnership with ISME and sponsorship of the #Think25 ISME Annual Conference on the 21st November 2018. Sovy and ISME share a common goal to simplify business compliance for SMEs in Ireland. ISME connects us with Ireland’s thriving SME community to provide affordable compliance in the cloud for GDPR, workplace conduct and anti-fraud regulations. […]
GDPR News Bytes – 29th October 2018
Europe Sets Guidelines on AI Last week, Data Protection Authorities endorsed new set of Guidelines on AI. They included key data protection principles echoed in the GDPR, such as privacy by design, implementing fairness in profiling technologies, and the right to explanation. The French and Italian DPAs – along with the European Data Protection Supervisor […]
GDPR News Bytes – 26th September 2018
Google recently made a quiet change to its Chrome browser: signing into any web service now signs you into Google Chrome. This change has alarmed many of its privacy-conscious users, who claim it violates its privacy policy by synchronizing the login states of its products. EU antitrust commissioner Margarethe Vestager will deliver the keynote […]
EU LIBE Issues with Privacy Shield – What SMEs Need To Know
Parliament Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) voted 29-25 to suspend the EU-US Privacy Shield if it does not fix gaps in compliance by September 1. In making its Resolution, which is non-binding but puts pressure on the Commission to act accordingly, the LIBE Committee highlighted a few of the most prevailing issues: US extension of surveillance […]