Category: Data Protection

Taking a week’s break from my Step-by-Step series in order to have one final rant [I promise] about the use of GDPR fines/penalties in marketing material. Hopefully this third attempt will sort the problem out once and for all, I DO have 400 followers after all.

In my business, I am advising everyone who will listen to not do business with ANY organisation using fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) as a tactic to sell. If they were offering decent services they would not have to resort to such unprofessional and unethical practices.

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In truth, this should be called Data Discovery & Asset Management, because there’s absolutely no point having one without the other. Nor should these things not already be part of your standard practices.

It’s 2018 and I can think of very few businesses who don’t have data as some of their most critical assets. No businesses bothering to read my blog anyway. So if data assets are that critical, why don’t you already KNOW where all of your personal data is? Why don’t you already have a record of who has access to it, and what they are doing with it?

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