North East Technology News

Issue 64

Data protection law applies to every organisation from large corporates to sole traders, and whether you employ thousands of people or none. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently highlighted some big fines for organisations that failed to adhere to the law. Topping the list was British Airways, which was fined £20million for failing to protect the personal and financial details of more than 400,000 customers. In second place was Marriott International with a fine of £18.4million for failing to keep the personal data of 339m of its customers safe. Do you know where your data is held, and who controls it? GDPR affects the management of data centres, since the operators own the physical environment where data is stored, and can be both ‘controllers’ and ‘processors’ under the regulation. It is essential that your data centre partner is compliant, particularly if your organisation runs on a private, public or hybrid…