World Backup Day – 31 March 2026
Don’t Be an April Fool. Every year on the 31st of March, the global technology community pauses to ask one question: if everything disappeared tomorrow, would you survive? Most organisations assume the answer is yes. Far too many discover, too late, that it isn’t. World Backup Day was conceived as a grassroots reminder; a yearly […]
The 2026 Privacy Horizon: Building Your 2026 Privacy Strategy for Privacy Day
With Privacy Day approaching, organisations are looking ahead to a year that increasingly resembles a geopolitical and commercial chessboard for data privacy. By 2026, the global privacy landscape has decisively shifted into a multi-polar regulatory reality. An increase in divergent national laws and intensifying enforcement have fractured the predictability that organisations once relied upon. In […]
TikTok vs The Data Protection Commissioner
TikTok vs. The Data Protection Commissioner: A high court ruling with billion-dollar implications for EU data transfers The Irish High Court has temporarily paused an order from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) that would have forced TikTok to suspend transfers of its European Economic Area (EEA) users’ data to China. While this decision follows […]
AI in the Courtroom: Safeguarding Rights in the Age of Judicial AI
The University of Surrey has unveiled a truly impressive Artificial Intelligence system designed to revolutionise how we interact with justice. By tailoring AI to the unique language of British courtrooms, this tool promises to make justice ‘more transparent and accessible’ than ever before.The system achieves this by automatically transcribing UK Supreme Court hearings and semantically […]
Beyond the Backlog: Lessons from Bristol City Council’s Data Rights Failures
The right to access personal data held by public authorities, formally known as a Subject Access Request (SAR), is a fundamental part of UK data protection law. When that right is not upheld, individuals can be left without vital information that may affect their lives, legal cases, or understanding of their own histories. Recent findings […]
Your GDPR Rights Explained – The Right to Rectification
In the first part of this blog series, we explained your right to erasure, restriction, and objection under GDPR. But what happens when this information is wrong? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides a solution with the “right to rectification,” empowering you to ensure the accuracy and completeness of your data. Understanding the Scope […]
GDPR Explained – Your Right to Erasure, Restriction and Objection
GDPR has been in place for over six years now but it’s still important to revisit the topic from time to time so we clearly understand data subject rights under GDPR and someone’s right to erasure, restriction or objection. The Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 provides the legal structure that governs how the government, organisations […]