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GDPR Week 1

The GDPR & new Data Protection Act – Let’s start at the beginning

If you’re new to the world of the GDPR and the UK’s planned new 2018 Data Protection Act, you may be feeling a bit overwhelmed by conflicting advice, scary predictions and not knowing where to start. To try and help we’re going to start sharing snippets of advice – especially from the perspective of those responsible for delivering their organisation’s customer experience – once a week.

 

If you’re new to the world of the GDPR and the UK’s planned new 2018 Data Protection Act, you may be feeling a bit overwhelmed by conflicting advice, scary predictions and not knowing where to start. To try and help we’re going to start sharing snippets of advice – especially from the perspective of those responsible for delivering their organisation’s customer experience – once a week.

Inspired by Homeserve’s Richard Merrygold, who invoked the image of an elephant to describe the GDPR at the Direct Marketing Association’s Data Protection 2017 conference in September (www.dma.org.uk/uploads/misc/59c4d6368c2e6-data-protection-2017—next-steps-agenda_59c4d6368c225.pdf), we might be able to help you tackle it one bite at a time.

So here’s a great place to start; the Information Commissioner’s Office’s 12-Step Guide to Preparing for the GDPR. It’s not terribly up to date and won’t answer your more detailed questions, but it’s easy-to-understand and provides some clear next steps.

www.ico.org.uk/media/1624219/preparing-for-the-gdpr-12-steps.pdf

More thoughts next week…

 

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