The Irish Data Protection Commission (the Irish equivalent of our own ICO) has fined Twitter £400,000 over how it handled a data breach in January 2019. Twitter was accused of not reporting within 72 hours and not documenting the data breach properly; they have accepted responsibility. The problem relates to a bug affecting Android users […]
GDPR & Governance
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A cornerstone of being able to demonstrate compliance with data protection regulations and best practice, is to know exactly what personal you hold, what it’s used for, who has access to it and how long it should be retained for. Larger organisations have a statutory responsibility to hold a Record of Processing Activities (“RoPA”), but […]
Tiltify and Twitch for 2021?
One of my clients is using Tiltify and Twitch to diversify their fundraising, and if these words are new to you, please read on. Tiltify is a fundraising platform that says it focuses on the socially conscious generation. It’s being used by the British Red Cross and Save the Children, as well as many smaller […]
Lockdown fundraising advice from CIoF and the Fundraising Regulator
Following the announcement of the government’s lockdown on 4th January 2021, the Chartered Institute of Fundraising (“CIoF”) and the Fundraising Regulator have issued a joint statement. You can read it here but the main point is that any charity fundraising which involves contact with members of the public cease where the highest levels of restrictions […]
UK GDPR – important quick update
Normal service will be resumed with the full range of insight newsletters next week, but I wanted to give you a quick update on where we are: The UK signed the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on 30th December, and this came into effect on 1st January 2021. One piece of this (clause 4 on […]