Only yesterday we saw the first proper fine of the post-GDPR era. A mere £183m. Today we hear that the ICO also intends to fine Marriott hotels just under £100m. More than a quarter of a billion pounds in 48 hours. For context, in the whole of last year the total fines for data protection … Continue reading Ten steps to avoid losing £283m
Anyone who cares about privacy has been waiting for the signal to start taking the new Data Protection Act seriously. Frankly, after the big rush to get "GDPR-ready" by May of last year, most organisations seem to have returned privacy to the too-hard pile. Very few have done anything to embed privacy as a living … Continue reading It’s time to get ethical
The UK lags behind other global economies in productivity growth. Experts are baffled. I’m not. I haven’t blogged in a while because we’ve been a little busy growing very fast. One consequence of that is that we need to move office. Not a complex task, really – we only need one floor of a building, … Continue reading Britain has a productivity problem
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