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 | Feb 20, 2020 | data subject access requests, GDPR
The Information Commissioner’s Office has amended its GDPR guidance in relation to the timescale for complying with Data Subject Access Requests, when you request clarification from the data subject. The old guidance suggested that you could wait until you...
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 | May 20, 2019 | GDPR
Any future employer is going to want a reference from us setting out how long we employed the employee for and other information about their job role (even if its limited to that). When we give that reference, we’re ‘processing’ personal data, so we need to comply...
by Anna Denton | Jan 3, 2019 | GDPR
Let’s say that the employee has suffered from work related stress and was prescribed anti-depressants and had informed their employer about this (this will be data relating to special categories or sensitive personal data in old money). They’re now trying to get the...
by Anna Denton | Dec 12, 2018 | GDPR
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued new guidance in conjunction with one of the charities that works with ex-offenders, around the extent to which, employers can ask applicants about their previous criminal records. It needs to be set in the...