We are starting to see organisations taking stock of how they currently comply with local Data Protection laws. That is certainly a commendable first step – if you don’t comply with the currently enforceable Data Protection laws, you may have some way to go with the new, updated laws emanating from the GDPR. Current Data
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Date: 10/01/2018 Event type: Webinar Venue: From Your Desk or Mobile Time: 13:30 – 14:30 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a set of regulations by which the European Commission intends to strengthen and unify data protection for individuals’ personal data. It comes into effect on 25th May, 2018. SAP has the unique advantage
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Like most children growing up in North America in the 1970’s, Sesame Street was a part of my daily schedule. The programme had puppets, humour & catchy songs – everything a pre-schooler could want from a TV show. My favourite Sesame Street song was “The People in Your Neighbourhood;” it’s about the occupations children are
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By Elodie Ellingsen, Data Privacy Officer The UK government website glossary defines a Regulation as “a legislative act of the EU which is directly applicable in Member States without the need for national implementing legislation. [Article 288 TFEU].” Did you know that under EU law, Regulations become automatically binding and directly applicable on the
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By Suki Latuske, SAP Security & GRC Manager A recent BBC News article titled “Managing the managers: The rise of the ‘philosopher-kings’” by Tim Harford, made me think about the perception of Management Consultants. Winterhawk is a boutique consultancy – each of us has had it drilled into us that the customer and value-added services
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By Andrew Sawyer, Chief Operations Officer On the 23rd of October, we received the news those of us who work within SAP Access Risk & Provisioning have been waiting for. That’s right – SAP have released Support Pack 19 for Access Control 10.1 (cue the trumpets)! Among the many released notes, the highlight of this
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By Elodie Ellingsen, Data Privacy Officer I am proud to come from Canada – a country where you cannot ask personal questions which could support any kind of discrimination. During a job interview, for instance, questions pertaining to ethnicity, religion, gender, age or disabilities may not be asked. The Canadian Charter of Rights and
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Wrong. GDPR still applies, and here’s why. Records can be stolen and misused whether they are on paper or stored digitally. If the information included in a given record can be used to identify an individual, then it falls under General Data Protection Regulations. Consider all your organisation’s physical paper and digital records. Do they
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By Steve Hewison, CEO The new EU General Data Protection Regulation has become a bigger and bigger news story throughout 2017, yet when Winterhawk, alongside our partners SAP, staged our first “Cyber Protection and GDPR” event back in October 2016, I got the distinct impression that people attended more out of curiosity, rather than a
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The UK Data Protection Act has been around long enough. Customers and employees already have the right to request that organisations reveal what information is held about them. Typically, a customer/employee (which we’ll refer to as a “Data Subject” in this article) will contact the organisation’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) and along with the request,
GDPR and the Trade Unions: will this inspire a wave of protest? Read More »