To be ready for May 25th and the need to conform to GDPR This does not include DPO, as you won’t need one. Information you hold You should document what personal data you hold, where it came from and who you share it with. You may need to organise an information audit. Communicating privacy information […]... Read More

UKBA recently held one of its bi-annual National Conferences, the chance to meet up with colleagues you don’t see between one meeting and the next, apart from exchanging emails. Really good to renew relationships, discuss common issues and concerns, and generally realise that you’re not alone out there in the big wide world. A common […]... Read More

Not more spreadsheets to analyse and chart… Always a regular cry in the office.  Reports produced on a regular basis need to be embellished, with charts that involve some fairly complicated calculations – cross-reference look-ups, previous month comparisons, and all that sort of thing. Probably, now this is done largely by hand.  The data sits […]... Read More

Under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) you must: use personal information fairly and lawfully; collect only the information necessary for a specific purpose(s); ensure it is relevant, accurate and up to date; only hold as much as you need, and only for as long as you need it; allow the subject of the information […]... Read More

Well it finally arrived – 8 weeks after it was expected. It has now update all my machines and with usual Microsoft efficiency. It took about an hour to an hour and a half dependant on which machine it came down to. If you are running your kit as a standard machine I don’t believe […]... Read More

Now that we tend to want to use more than one device to get hold of our email it is better if we can do this by referring to only one source.  And the only place this can be is in some common area or Cloud resource. Historically, connection to and availability of, the internet […]... Read More

I really do not understand why people I have never heard of, and am never likely to want to be connected to, ask to be connected. Linkedin is supposed to be for professionals, not as an alternative to Facebook. Please, please, do not ask to connect unless there really is a connection. I have a […]... Read More

For Thunderbird, you set up Calendars as being on a network – that is they exist as .ics files (the same that Outlook uses) in a common are, in your Cloud, and each device refers to these when displaying its calendar. For Outlook go to Options and add Internet Calendars. As a suggestion I have […]... Read More

When setting machines up for new users there are a number of useful apps that I recommend and install if accepted… Freefilesync Malwarebytes Anti-Malware free version Team Viewer Wise Registry Cleaner Wise PC 1st aid... Read More