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Best thing that I did this week?

Cut through the paperwork to allow the police to investigate a modern slavery case and also a possible murder. Sometimes you just have to put your name to something and just get on with dealing with something because it is only right to do so.

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You have to make a decision…

…and stand by it. With a lot to do with data protection you are not going to make everyone happy. The more complicated the organisation that you support, the more that shades of gray apply because the legislation does not really say what is right or wrong, more what you have to consider and then

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Do we really need a privacy notice at a bus stop?

One of the suggestions from the ICO is that if you are providing health care services – say a hospital – that you start advertising your privacy notice at bus stops around the area. The aim is fine – make sure that as many people get the chance to understand how you may be using

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Data Quality (and it is important)

Have seen a few cases in the last few months where someone contacts their GP for a prescription or an appointment only to be told that they have been deregistered as the Practice had been told they had moved. It has happened twice in the last 12 months to the same person. It is happening

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Fine v Reputational Damage

The ICO continues to argue that it will not fine public sector organisations for major data breaches and that reputational damage will be a driver for improvement. As many people are saying, the problem is that if you have no choice but to use that organisation then they could lose all your data and their

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Dinosaurs still exist

Not the royal family as some people believe but those people whose ways of managing things border on bullying, undermining people and generally have a world view that people or the organisation they work for exist to promote them. Credit to the person that wrote this and making things so clear/I will be using every

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EIR…

…Environmental Information Regulations, the misunderstood cousin to the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). Coming out of the FOI24 conference I think a lot of people are going to try and understand them more. especially where the Information Commissioner is trying to get improvements in understanding across the public sector. EIR and FOI requests are not

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