What is Greenwashing in business?

UK SMEs need to be on notice that regulators, customers, and investors are taking greenwashing seriously.

AirTags might be useful, but are they a threat to privacy?

Jackie Barlow, Data Protection Senior Consultant at Xcina Consulting, discusses how AirTags might be useful, but are they a threat to privacy?

Remote Working, Data Protection and VPN Policies are essential in the modern working environment

Maintaining corporate policies can be seen as a tick box, waste of time exercise. Overcoming this historical view of company policies requires firms to write short, succinct policies that are…

The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up

Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They all go through a developmental stage called…

What is your personal data worth?

What do you believe your own data is worth to an organisation? Is it more valuable to you than to organisations who collect it and would you expect something in return if they want to use it for…

How are you building trust with your consumers when processing their data?

A real concern for customers is the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and many have lost trust in organisations where data has been used for this purpose.

Defining and excluding Consequential Loss in a contract

Although decided in 1854, the same year Florence Nightingale was sent to the Crimean War and Hard Times by Charles Dickens was published, the test for what constitutes direct and indirect…

Directors duties – understanding your responsibilities as a Company Director

Being appointed a company director or becoming a director by launching a start-up company comes with considerable responsibility. Codified in sections 170-177 of the Companies Act 2006, directors’…

How to recognise and respond to a GDPR Subject Access Request

Recognising and responding to a UK GDPR subject access request (SARs) is a key part of data protection and privacy law compliance. It is also one of the most common ways employees encounter customers…