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DQM GRC’s Senior GDPR Consultant, Louise Brooks, will be speaking at #RISK 2022 on 17 November at ExCel London on the topic of ‘Managing Data Breach Disclosure and Reporting Requirements’.

Data protection and privacy consultancy, DQM GRC, has won the “Best data ethics and privacy initiative” at the 2020 DataIQ awards for its Privacy by Design training programme with WarnerMedia.

Following the Schrems II ruling by the European Court of Justice in July 2020, any organisation transferring data from the EU to the US needs to take steps to ensure they remain compliant with the GDPR.

COVID-19 Cyber Risk and Data Privacy Response Service with IT Governance & GRCI Law

Cookies are a valuable tool that can give your organisation a great deal of insight into your users’ online activities. The regulations governing cookies are currently split between the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation (PECR), and the ePrivacy Directive, with the incoming ePrivacy Regulation set to be finalised later this year.

We’re now 18 months into the brave new world of GDPR. Like many data protection professionals, I found the new legislation acted as a magic word with executives. It helped open up the resources to review information management practices that had not been looked at in many years, if ever.

If you feel your organisation’s interest in all things GDPR has waned a little over the past 18 months, or you’d like to read about how other companies are reengaging their colleagues’ interest in data protection - then this article is for you.

In June 2019 Kendra Kerry produced an article on steps that can be used to encourage actors to take responsible actions. They can also be applied very effectively to data controllers, and demonstrate the role that consultants and data protection professionals have on encouraging behaviour change.