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Governance Watch - Issue 38

Governance Watch - Issue 38

Data

There is irony in the timing of a £500,000 fine levied on Facebook today by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for two breaches of the Data Protection Act in the scandal involving Cambridge Analytica. The breaches occurred before the latest European General Data Protection (GDPR) came into effect in May, therefore the £500,000 cap is one set by the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998.

Governance Watch - Issue 33

Governance Watch - Issue 33

Data and Governance

Events in the last week across the public and private sectors in the UK have made it quite clear that major issues with technological transformation and the handling of data are not being dealt with from a governance perspective.