Author: Mel

Subject Access Requests – Practical Tips

Cast your mind back to 2018. The idea of being locked inside your house for months on end would’ve seemed like a pipedream, masks were…

Working From Home – Top Tips

In March of 2020, the Coronavirus disrupted our everyday life by demanding we all remain in our houses, a grounding the likes of which have…

Safeguarding and Online Dating

At DPAS we like to say that ‘your data is our business’. This Valentine’s Day we’ll amend that slightly; your safety is our business. Last…

The Role of the Data Champion Webinar

On the 8th of December we relaunched our Privacy Pulse webinar series and the verdict’s in! With around 60 people in attendance, it was a…

Being a Female CEO

There exists an incorrect, yet common, assumption that being young and female are incompatible with leadership, especially for an evolving organisation like DPAS. I often…

Looking Back at 2021

Here at DPAS we have not been immune to the, unique shall we say, obstacles posed by the past year or so. Despite the challenges…

Data Protection and Safeguarding

It is important to note that UK Data Protection law provides no barrier to voicing concerns to a safeguarding authority when it concerns vulnerable children…

How to meet the Accountability Principle

Article 5(2) of the GDPR states that the data controller is responsible for ensuring and demonstrating that an organisation meets the accountability principle. In this…

October Prize Draw 2021

Do you want to up your data protection game as a practitioner and learn more about information security? Enter our competition now and you could be…