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Please note that due to editorial annual leave, there will be no WGPlus Newsletter published next week (Monday 11th June). We’ll therefore be publishing and emailing to all registered users again on Monday 18th June onwards.
A ‘Don’t Panic’ approach to GDPR! |
The National Archives has always taken seriously their compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998. From 25 May 2018, they have been processing personal information under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new Data Protection Act. They have not been in touch with all of their contacts individually about this, as there is no requirement under this new data protection legislation for us to do so. ‘Anything you have signed up for in the past remains valid; you do not have to reconfirm your consent in order to continue receiving our newsletter and updates. As always, you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the newsletter, or by contacting us’. Most of the records in their archives dating back 1,000 years are unaffected as data protection legislation only applies to living individuals. Data protection legislation permits the continued processing of personal data for permanent preservation subject to appropriate safeguards. |
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NA: The National Archives and personal data under GDPR So how many emails did you receive from ‘data holders’ this month? |
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Pity ICO cannot seize all their ‘profit’ |
Bosses of companies which plague people with unsolicited nuisance calls could be fined as much as £500,000 under new proposals to make them personally liable if their firm breaks the law. The UK data protection watchdog revealed last week it had recovered 54% of the £17.8m in fines issued for nuisance calls since 2010, as companies go into liquidation to avoid big penalties. As it stands, only the businesses themselves are liable for fines of up to £500,000, and some directors try to escape paying penalties by declaring bankruptcy - only to open up again under a different name. But new Government proposals being consulted on will provide the ICO with the powers it needs to hold company directors directly responsible with further fines of up to £500,000. |
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DCMS: New measures to beat plague of nuisance calls ICO: Statement in response to new plans for nuisance call directors to face fines DCMS consultation: Nuisance calls & messages - action against directors West Yorkshire firms fined for nuisance calls to TPS subscribers Company previously fined for making nuisance calls is prosecuted for failing to change its ways Director banned for making cold calls to sell call blocking devices Nuisance call & spam text firms hit with £2m in fines by the ICO this year Cold-calling director disconnected Automated call crackdown continues as ICO fines firm for 16.7m illegal calls about boiler grants |
Editor’s choice of other Health related items of note: |
HM Courts & Tribunals Service: Submit your personal independent payment appeal online |
SME Supplier Locator update... | ||
UK Government and public sector spend with SME’s is continually on the increase and by 2020, it is the stated intent of Cabinet Office that £1 of every £3 spent on government contracts goes to SME’s. Against this ambitious backdrop, the WiredGov Supplier Locator service has been developed specifically to embrace the SME Agenda and provide the ideal platform for SME’s to promote their services, solutions, accreditation and success stories directly to our ever increasing audience across all government and public sector verticals and Tier 1 suppliers. Recent arrivals to the SME Supplier Locator service include:
Click here to find out more. |
Editorial commentary; An academic counter to ‘Project Fear’ |
Too often during the last year, there have been ‘statements made by civil servants (often nameless) which claim that Brexit will be an ‘expensive catastrophe’. While the allegedly Remaining-biased media such as the BBC are quick to promote these views as ‘irrefutable facts’, they appear less willing give the same prominence to the follow-up analysis of these claims by academics, who often have a more detailed knowledge of the subject manner. This is why we encourage readers to click through to websites such as ‘Briefings for Brexit’ for a more balanced examination of such recent claims as that of the Head of HMRC that ‘leaving the EU Customs Union would cost UK firms as much as £20bn a year’. In order to ‘play fair’ we have provided links to both the BfB item and to an item by a Reality Check correspondent, at BBC News. We leave it readers to judge which item has been based on accurate facts. |
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BfB: Customs Costs Post-Brexit Brexit: How did HMRC get to a £20bn customs cost? - BBC News Civitas paper lays bare 18 years of BBC anti Brexit bias | News-Watch |
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Still a ‘hot topic’, with widely spread views, for those who put fingers to keyboard in order to ‘share their views’: |
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Brexit microsite (Information about the Article 50 process and our negotiations for a new partnership with the EU) WAG: Counsel General visits Ireland on fact-finding mission techUK comment on Michel Barnier’s speech on data protection BfB: Time to Challenge Defence Civil Servants over Brexit |
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