by Anna Denton | Feb 2, 2021 | Brexit, Data Protection
Our latest video is available to view on the Refreshing Law YouTube channel – please click here to watch Anna discussing Data Protection and Brexit and some of the implications and recent developments in this area. Refreshing Law Ltd – 1 February...
by Anna Denton | Sep 16, 2020 | Criminal Records Data, Data Protection, GDPR
A recent case hit the High Court involving an employee in relation to her conduct which may have involved a criminal offence. She was arrested but was not charged. The employer was HMRC but the principles will be of wider applicability. The...
by Anna Denton | Jun 27, 2019 | Data Protection, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Workplace
There may be lots of good reasons why you need to access someone else’s in box. They may have left your organisation and you may be monitoring their emails in order to deal with correspondence sent in the ordinary course of what your organisation does, they may...
by Anna Denton | Mar 1, 2017 | Data Protection
An employee has told you that she intends to transition to a male identity and that after she returns from her holiday she expects you to change her name on all relevant records. This raises lots of different issues but what are the Data Protection Act implications?...
by Anna Denton | Feb 13, 2017 | Data Protection
Imagine this scenario; a manager is concerned about a highly IT savvy employee who knows their password, so is uncomfortable dealing with HR or gaining legal advice using their work email address. The manager gives out their home or personal email address to the...
by Anna Denton | Apr 25, 2016 | Articles, Data Protection
In HR we pride ourselves on being alive to issues like confidentiality around staff information and probably have at least a passing understanding of data protection and an individual’s right to make a subject access request, probably seeing examples of this...