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Pageantry and Privacy

In an increasingly competitive and ever-evolving business landscape, the coronation of a new king of the United Kingdom gives us an opportunity to reflect on how institutions and organisations evolve over time and some of the lessons around remaining relevant. The business environment is constantly changing, and we often see organisations that fail to [...]

By |2023-05-19T17:15:43+01:007th May, 2023|DPO, Governments, International|

CNIL’s priority topics for investigations in 2023: “smart” cameras, mobile apps, bank and medical records

The French Data Protection Agency, Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés’ (CNIL) will focus on 4 topics for its investigation: use of "smart" cameras by public actors the use of the file on a personal credit repayment incident the management of health files mobile apps The use of “smart” cameras by public actors As large [...]

By |2023-05-19T17:16:02+01:0024th April, 2023|DPO, Governments, International|

The EDPB has kicked off its 2023 coordinated enforcement action on the role of the DPO

In light of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announcement that was made on the 15th March 2023, it is to be noted that throughout the year 2023, 26 Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) across the EEA (including EDPS) will take part in the Coordinated Enforcement Framework (CEF) focused on the designation and position of [...]

By |2023-04-25T13:49:53+01:0024th April, 2023|DPO, EDPB, Governments, International|

Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

Did you know that the UK’s Data Protection Policy is being reformed? Recently, on the 8th of March 2023, upon removal of the first Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, the UK Government introduced the 2nd version of the DPDI bill. In an official press release, Secretary Donelan voiced this as a “new common-sense-led [...]

By |2023-04-25T13:19:49+01:0024th April, 2023|DPO, Governments, International|

ChatGPT and Cybersecurity – A Closer Look

Let’s take a closer look at the latest chatbot ChatGPT and what this could potentially mean for the cybersecurity industry.  ChatGPT – the bustling chatbot ChatGPT, the trending conversational agent or chatbot was built by OpenAI. It makes use of a large-scale pre-trained neural network language model known as the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) [...]

By |2023-04-24T15:20:12+01:0024th April, 2023|ChatGPT, Cybersecurity, DPO, Governments, International|

HewardMills’ journey to attaining B Corp Certification

In October 2022 HewardMills achieved its B Corp certification, which is something that we are immensely proud of.   We aim to meet high standards in everything that we do. This includes social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.  This document provides an overview of our journey to B Corp certification and outlines our performance across [...]

By |2023-03-30T16:24:36+01:0027th March, 2023|B Corp, DPO, Governments, International|

EDPB launches coordinated enforcement on role of DPOs

On 15th March 2023 the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced that 26 data protection authorities will take part in the coordinated action for 2023 to analyse the designation and position of data protection officers (DPO) of public and private sector entities. In this initiative Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) across the European Economic Area [...]

By |2023-03-27T13:36:24+01:0027th March, 2023|DPO, EDPB, Governments, International|

Privacy by Design to become an ISO Standard

What is an ISO Standard? An ISO standard refers to a set of guidelines and requirements created by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), a non-governmental organisation that creates and publishes international standards for a wide range of industries, products, and services. ISO standards serve as a framework for best practises, and they can [...]

By |2023-03-15T13:50:25+00:0015th March, 2023|DPO, Governments, International, Privacy by Design|

The EU AI Framework

Start preparing your business for the EU Framework on artificial intelligence The EU Framework on artificial intelligence (AI), consisting of a regulation establishing harmonised rules on AI (the AI act), and a directive adopting non-contractual civil liability rules to AI (the AI Liability Directive) is expected to be adopted in 2024 or 2025. It [...]

Encryption – The Benefits for Businesses

What is Encryption? Encryption is an added security measure. It involves converting human-readable data to ciphertext. This is so that it cannot be read by those who are not the intended recipients of the data. Only those with the key to decrypt the data can convert it back to plaintext. Decryption is the process [...]

By |2023-03-15T12:34:12+00:0015th March, 2023|Cybersecurity, DPO, Encryption, International|
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