Scott Dooley
On the 10th July 2020, the AEPD – Spain’s data protection authority initiated a sanctioning procedure to fine the Barcelona Airport Security Guard Association (AVSAB) under the GDPR. The case found that a member of the AVSAB security group had used WhatsApp to send messages to private phone numbers containing personal information about employees. The … Read more
If you have old contacts sitting around in your CRM or email marketing software, now is the time to delete them. Because recent cases tell us, regulators are paying increasing attention to GDPR’s requirement to only keep data for as long as you need it. On the 27th of August 2020, Danish data protection authority … Read more
On 6 August 2020, the AEPD (Spain’s data authority) decided to fine Grow Beats SL, an e-commerce company that targets a young audience to sell audio equipment like earphones and speakers, €3,000 for unlawful cookie practices. The fine relates to their unlawful use of cookies on the website. Specifically, that there mechanism was established to … Read more
On the 4th March 2020 the ICO reported that they will fine Hong-Kong based airline Cathay Pacific £500,000 for failing to protect customer’s personal data – under the data protection act. The ruling is the result of an investigation by the ICO into Cathay Pacific following a high-profile data-breach which exposed the personal details of … Read more
Many questions are beginning to emerge as we start to absorb the scale of the Coronavirus outbreak. It’s clearly much bigger than many of us imagined, and certainly not just something that is limited to China – a naive assumption you may remember from January. As the pressure builds on our health systems, those who … Read more
To ensure your email marketing stays effective, you need a tidy, clean and fresh subscriber database. The quality of subscriber data decays fast but by following some best practices you can keep your list in good condition. But firstly, what do we mean by subscriber data? To be clear we’re talking about your list of … Read more
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