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...
by Anna Denton | Nov 14, 2018 | GDPR
The Information Commissioner has issued its first enforcement notice under the GDPR. Unsurprisingly it’s to a company called AggregateIQ Data Services Limited, which is actually a Canadian company in connection with what went on with Cambridge Analytica and...
by Anna Denton | Apr 22, 2018 | GDPR
Under the GDPR, biometric data such as fingerprints falls within the new category of ‘special category of data’ and is what we used to call ‘sensitive personal data’ in old money. If you use a system to record that data, when employees clock-in and out for example, to...
by Anna Denton | Apr 16, 2018 | GDPR
You may well have handheld devices that staff are using as part of their jobs that potentially tell you where those employees are. You may also have tracking fitted to company vehicles for insurance purposes, and both of those are examples of technologies that the...