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Measures to control and prevent the spread of COVID-19 means more people will be working remotely. 

For remote working to be successful, it is important that organisations have effective re…

The Commissioner has produced guidance about coronavirus and compliance with data protection and freedom of information legislation. 

The guidance includes:

• data protection for health bo…

Candidates for election process personal data and must comply with the requirements of the data protection legislation.  

In addition, as canvassing for election falls within the definition…

An Enforcement Notice has been issued to a controller, the Department of Home Affairs, in respect of failure to comply with a request exercising the right of access to personal data. 

The E…

When the UK exits the European Union on 31 January 2020, the UK and Gibraltar will become third countries for the purposes of the data protection legislation.

Controllers and processors in …

Statistics relating to the number of formal compliance matters handled by the Commissioner during 2019, together with the number of notices issued, have been published.

This information is …

An Enforcement Notice has been issued to a controller, Macbeths Limited, in respect of failures to:

• comply with a request exercising the right of access to personal data (in CCTV images);…

Details of the new "Senior Compliance Officer" post, and how to apply, are available via the Isle of Man Public Service Careers portal.

https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/iomgovjobs/displayjob.aspx…

All 160 register entries remaining under the Data Protection Act 2002 will expire before 1 February 2020.

If your registration number is prefixed with an “N” and expires between 9 December …

The Commissioner has issued a decision notice under the Freedom of Information Act 2015 following receipt of a request for review.

This includes considerations of the application of a quali…

Statistics relating to the number of formal compliance matters handled by the Commissioner for the year to 30 September 2019 have been published and are available below and at: https://www.i…

The Commissioner has issued a decision notice under the Freedom of Information Act 2015 following receipt of a request for review.

This includes considerations of the application of practic…

Updated guidance on the use of CCTV has been published.

• Guidance for controllers about the use of surveillance cameras can be found at: https://www.inforights.im/organisations/data-protec…

It is one year since new data protection legislation came into force in the Isle of Man, bringing the EU General Data Protection Regulation and Law Enforcement Directive into effect in the I…

The Commissioner has handled the following formal compliance matters during the period  1 April – 30 June 2019

Matters outstanding received during the period 1 August 2018 – 31 March 2019

When the new data protection legislation came into force on 1 August 2018, a transitional period was included to allow controllers time to make changes.  The transitional period ends on 25 M…

The website will be down between 2pm and 3pm on 25 April 2019 whilst the software and infrastructure are upgraded.

This should only be for a very short period, but if you have any queries d…

Compliance activity snapshot – 31 March 2019

The Commissioner has handled the following formal compliance matters during the period 1 January – 31 March 2019

Matters outstanding from the p…

On exit from the European Union, the UK and Gibraltar will become third countries for the purposes of the data protection legislation.

Controllers and processors in the Isle of Man cannot t…

The Commissioner has issued 5 decision notices under the Freedom of Information Act 2015 following receipt of requests for review during 2018.

These include considerations of the applicatio…

A mutual adequacy arrangement has been adopted by Japan and the EU each recognising the other's data protection legislation as providing adequate protection for personal data.

According to …

The French data protection authority (CNIL) has given Google a €50M fine for "lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding ads personalisation". This is t…

The GDPR and LED Implementing Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (SD2018/0309) were approved by Tynwald at its sitting on 15 January 2019. These come into effect on 1 February 2019.

T…

The UK Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has issued guidance for businesses about data protection if there is no Brexit deal in September 2018. This guidance can be…