Data Analytics

Much noise has been made about the eye-watering fines that GDPR will introduce, most notably the fact that organisations could be fined up to €20 million or 4% of global turnover, whichever is higher, for serious infringements. While all of that is technically true, a lot of the finer detail around GDPR fines can get lost amid the scaremongering.

Are you GDPR ready? With just a few months to go until the EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into force, here are the key facts around data subject rights and what you can do to stay compliant.

The discovery of three serious chipset flaws, collectively named Meltdown and Spectre, have thrown data security back into the spotlight once again.

2017 has been a year of high-profile data breaches, bringing data security to the forefront of public attention once again, and going some way to damaging the trust placed in organisations to look after personal data.

In a world that is pushing big data and trying to gather as much information and intelligence about everyone as possible, data minimisation comes into question. Why do we actually need to collect so much data, and what are we actually using all that data for?

Social media is flooded with scary articles about GDPR, lots of statistics and conflicting information but very little in terms of cold hard facts. In this article, Julie Lock, Service Development Director at MHR looks at what GDPR is and what organisations should be doing from an HR perspective to meet the regulations. Plus use our free Online Self Assessment Checklist to help assess your current processes.