Working with big enterprises means that you’re fortunate to get to solve big problems but getting there can be a challenge. A quick shout out from Kyle to those people and teams who have made it happen for Ohalo and the Data X-Ray.
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Issues have started to emerge around data gathering in hospitality for contact tracing. Are the organisations providing these services data privacy compliant? Their privacy policies alone have some pretty big issues...
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Our first video in a new series - The Ohalo Scrapbook - on a new ICO early payment discount in the context of the massive expansion of personal data under regulation in the pandemic response.
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A short story about our engagement with Lloyd's Register and the Health and Safety Executive (the health and safety regulator for the UK).
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Press release: Ohalo is pleased to announce its participation in the GCHQ/NCSC/Wayra programme to enhance cybersecurity in the UK and abroad.
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Last Wednesday the CMA (the UK’s antitrust authority) released two documents that, taken together, suggest a worrying trend at the interface between data privacy and antitrust, potentially heralding the abolition of the ICO and the end for GDPR in the UK.
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The CCPA is one of the most sweeping data privacy regulations to come into effect in the United States and is applicable to any company processing the personal information of a Californian resident. This guide provides a practical at-a-glance resource for organizations that are looking to become compliant with the CCPA.
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Facebook’s lead data privacy regulator in the EU, the Irish Data Protection Commission, yesterday summoned the social media giant for an “urgent briefing” to explain its planned backend integration of Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.
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The French data protection regulator, CNIL, hit Google with a €50m fine this week following a crowdsourced complaint. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this fine is the public trigger to the investigation and the eagerness of the authority to then run with the complaint.
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Cambridge Analytica’s parent company ended up in court this week for failing to adhere to an ICO enforcement notice. That the ICO had to resort to criminal prosecution at all sheds valuable light on the broad contempt for data privacy that persists in large sections of the economy and the continuing enforcement challenges that the regulator faces.
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