1/10/2020 5:20:30 PM GDPR: Dixons fined $650,000 by ICO for Crap Security Exposed 5.6 million Customers' Payment Cards By Tim Hughes Think that £500 Million ($650 Million) is a lot of money? Well thankfully for Dixons, this was before the GDPR May 2018 deadlines...
12/27/2019 5:47:35 AM GDPR And CCPA Are Only The Beginning - It's Time To Start Getting Your Marketing in Order! By Tim Hughes GDPR regulations came into force on 25th May 2018 and CCPA regulations come into force on the 1st January 2020. With further State law...
7/8/2019 9:44:59 AM £183 million GDPR slap for British Airways. By Stephen Sumner I read with some interest that 'British Airways' (BA) have been handed a hefty fine from the 'Information Commissioners Office' (ICO) for...
2/14/2019 9:26:16 AM GDPR Is Tough and Set to Get Even Tougher By Tim Hughes The world changed on the 25th May 2018 when the GDPR regulations happened. So what happened? I recall Sandler trainers and cold callers...
12/4/2018 9:08:24 AM What can Cold Callers Learn from the Marriott Data Breach? By Tim Hughes You will have seen the news, I'm sure, about the Marriott data breach. The number of people details that have been hacked is now at...
11/20/2018 9:05:10 AM Ditch the Sales Script and Do This Instead By Tim Hughes We've all been there, your phone rings and somebody starts pitching to you. The ability to cold call, in the world and certainly in...
10/30/2018 9:18:50 AM The Truth about Gated vs. Ungated Content By Tim Hughes In the world of GDPR gated content the What, Why, Which etc, has got a load more complicated. In the past marketing was "simple" you...
6/29/2018 5:44:52 AM Europe's GDPR Is Killing Email Marketing, to the Disappointment of No One By Tim Hughes A brief history of Marketing to date. In the 1930s there was advertising and (of course) nobody has access to the internet the only way...
6/23/2018 2:02:05 PM Everyone is panicking about a new law that might kill off the meme and change the internet By Tim Hughes It's probably worth remember what royalties are, they are a small future payment that authors, artists can get if their book, art, music...
6/15/2018 5:34:35 PM The Future Of Everything That Matters In Digital Marketing By Tim Hughes When we see fashion shows we, OK maybe it's me, but I see models walking down the cat walk and I immediately think, "I will never wear...
4/16/2018 8:21:34 AM What do GDPR and a Fish Tank Have in Common? By Tim Hughes If you hadn't read this story, people hacked a casino database using a thermometer in a fish tank. The article is about how the internet...
4/11/2018 8:01:22 AM Like The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 - GDPR Will Be Accepted as Global Legislation By Tim Hughes On the day after Mark Zuckerberg testified on Capitol Hill in the US, there seems to be a global change taking place about the way we...
3/11/2018 9:00:48 PM GDPR: If I Want To Be Forgotten I Want To Be Forgotten - This Time It's No Joke By Tim Hughes There is current legislation in Europe called "the right to be forgotten", which if i want to be removed from your database, you have to...
2/14/2018 10:04:17 AM GDPR - We Have a DPO Do You? By Tim Hughes As CEO of DLA I decided from the "get go" that we needed to comply with current data protection rules as well as the up and coming GDPR...
2/8/2018 8:53:25 AM Are you Ready for Your GDPR Investigation? By Tim Hughes On May 25th the European GDPR regulations come into place, at which point investigations will start. You will be investigated if somebody...
2/8/2018 8:51:08 AM Are you Ready for Your GDPR Investigation? By Tim Hughes On May 25th the European GDPR regulations come into place, at which point investigations will start. You will be investigated if somebody...