We caught up with Senior Health Care Supervisors in Ghana, in conjunction with the Data Protection Commission-Ghana to discuss the current situation on the enforcement mechanisms for regulating personal data within the Health Sector. Every data-driven organisation should have a privacy framework in place. If your organisation hasn’t yet taken the time to orient [...]
February marks Black History Month in the U.S. and Canada: a celebration of an intellectual history that highlights greatness, perseverance, and generational excellence of People of Color in modern history. As a global DPO that provides support for various multinational organisations to achieve high-level privacy standards, we understand the responsibility to effectuate a privacy [...]
Data breaches have been on the rise in recent times. This development begs the question who is responsible for such incidents. Allocating Responsibility Recent events and studies have indicated that organisations seek to attribute blame in the immediate aftermath of a breach rather than accountability. Following the Uber case involving Joe Sullivan, there is [...]
What is the Resolution? On the 15th December 2021, the office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights presented the ‘Right to Privacy in the Digital Age’ report to the 48th session of the Human Rights Council. This followed a first attempt to protect the right to privacy online that was made in July [...]
Introduction to ePrivacy The introduction of the GDPR in 2018 has created stricter accountability and transparency requirements, especially in relation to ePrivacy. These requirements are built on a core principle of data protection: allowing individuals to be in control of their own data. Privacy Notice and Transparency The GDPR grants data subjects a right [...]
From Initial Complaints in May 2018 to Sanctioning in January 2023 Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp parent company, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, has faced complaints regarding privacy since the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018 and the matter has finally been addressed by authorities. The data privacy activist group NOYB filed [...]
Cybersecurity continues to be challenged and receives indisputable attention with the evolving digital transformation. According to the 2022 Ponemon Institute report on the state of cybersecurity, 54% of organisations have experienced a cyberattack in the last 12 months. While many surveys state the increasing incidence of Ransomware and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks [...]
On the 13 December 2022 the European (EU) Commission released its draft adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). This decision follows the signature of a US Executive Order by President Biden on the 7th October 2022 in which the US government made several commitments to implement new binding safeguards to address [...]
Looking back over 2022, HewardMills has continued to consistently set the standard on data protection and privacy, championing best practice and working hand in hand with our global clients to identify and address data protection and privacy gaps. Fines Over the course of the year, we have seen data privacy and protection hit the [...]
Last month, we joined celebrations at the Natural History Museum as B Corp reached the momentous milestone of 1000 UK certified corporations; with HewardMills being one of the latest to proudly join the community. At the heart of the event was the opportunity to connect and celebrate with other B Corp organisations whose collective [...]
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