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Data Protection Act Issues

A place to discuss the DPA and other data storage issues.

Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

Chatbots provide hope for easy to understand consent, post GDPR!

We are all being inundated with requests for consent to continue using services as the GDPR deadline rapidly comes closer and closer. Many of us are not finding the consent experience very good. The question from these experiences we need to ask ourselves are we any the wiser of understanding the context of how our personal data is processed. The...

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Reghunathan Sukumara Pillai

Reghunathan Sukumara Pillai Consultant at Infosys

Personal data everywhere ?

Early morning, I received a call in my cell phone from a consumer finance company explaining to me about some consumer finance/EMI offers. After a few hours, I received a call from one call entre of a bank selling credit cards about life time free card with other offers. In the afternoon, I received a call from an Insurance company about some insu...

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Robert McClure

Robert McClure Managing Director at Sequrest

Navigating the GDPR maze

On 25 May 2018 most processing of personal data by organisations will have to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This legislation replaces the Data Protection Act and will have far reaching consequences for how institutions collect, process and store data. Individuals will gain greater rights and control over their data. ...

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Sayed Ali Sharafudeen

Sayed Ali Sharafudeen Senior Manager, Customer Analytics at Genpact

Reshaping Customer Engagement & Data Management Strategies: A necessity in the post-GDPR era

When the European Union ushers in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018, it will represent one of the most critical developments and the biggest shake-up in the use and management of customer data over a decade. This has been specifically designed to ‘harmonize’ consumer rights across the continent and will consecrate stringent ...

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Keith Stonell

Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire

Will GDPR hinder KYC for Insurers?

GDPR. These letters are increasingly visible in the media. When it comes into force on 25th May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply to all EU member states, including the UK. Its aim is to standardise and strengthen data protection for all individuals within the EU; it also addresses the export of personal data outside...

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Retired Member 

Who didn’t hear about Equifax? Actually, quite a lot of people

It was nearly impossible to avoid the media coverage, and subsequent public outrage surrounding the data breach at credit reporting agency Equifax, which left 143 million people potentially exposed to the threat of stolen personally identifiable information (PII). Equifax responded with a microsite for people to input even more of their personal d...

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Compliance: Overcome the data deficit

The technology requirements to analyse large data sets have never been more in demand in Financial Services. In 2017 financial institutions are creating vast swathes of data far beyond what we saw just a decade ago. However, it’s not just data volume that makes powerful data analysis such an important consideration, its regulation. Financial Servi...

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Retired Member 

Blogging can hurt your employability 2

See also - Blogging can hurt your employability 1 I was sitting in the waiting room at the Doctors this morning reading an old copy of Cosmopolitan; well I'd never buy a copy - far too raunchy for me! I noticed they now run a section on careers and Corrine Dauncey a careers expert with www.tiptopjob.com gave some good advice on answering the quest...

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Blogging can hurt your employability

On the BBC World Service yesterday, and today on Silicon.com there comes a new threat to our employment chances - the Blog and other social sites. Apparently HR teams are being encouraged to use the Internet to research applicants for jobs and apparently some of the results are quite interesting as more and more companies use the web to store data....

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Data protection act issues

Data protections is something that we at Finextra take very seriously and as Finextra's DPA man I’m constantly having to ensure all data we collect and use is properly stored and updated.I’ve set up this blog with a mind to discuss any issues relating to the DPA and any other issues regarding storing and managing data.

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