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 […]

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 […]