Is your business ready for GDPR deadline?… Thought not.
The clock is ticking for GDPR.
With less than 12 months to go until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force across the EU, a third of UK organisations fear they will not be compliant in time.
Independent technical consultancy Amido has launched a new service to tackle these concerns, with its tailored GDPR Readiness Assessment that mitigates the risks of the most significant regulation changes affecting customer data.
Strengthening privacy in an ever-changing technology landscape, GDPR will unify data privacy across all EU member states through tighter restrictions on personal information, enforcing appropriate consent, as well as further improving clarity in terms individual rights.
However, with tough fines for non-compliance of up to either 4% global revenue or 20 million Euros, organisations are becoming increasingly concerned with the impending deadline.
Amido's Readiness Assessment is designed to help organisations evaluate high risk areas that need immediate attention including business activity, current technology, governance and process, as well as any existing GDPR plans and ongoing digital transformation projects.
"One critical element of GDPR is the identification and management of customers, as well as their privacy preferences. Our new readiness assessment will help organisations to manage a consent profile and to tie that into their customer's identity, ensuring they are ready for GDPR," said Chris Gray, Technical Director of Amido.
As experts in Identity and Access Management, Amido have worked with the likes of ASOS, Channel 4, global financial services organisations and public-sector bodies to ensure their technology utilises and protects customer data. The new readiness assessment service will be integral in supporting organisations striving to be ahead of the game with just ten months to go until the GDPR comes into effect.
Amido is ranked 12th in The Sunday Times Lloyds SME Export Track 100 league table, the UK's top 100 SMEs with the fastest-growing international sales.
A much-loved and departed East Londoner pensioner is the subject of an eyes-opening celebratory digital project.
My eyes! On what would have been noted Londoner Joseph Markovic's 90th year, his much loved photography journal I've lived in London for 86½ Years has been released as an interesting digital experience.
This experience is controlled by opening and shutting the eyes as a fully interactive story is told by a narrator and Joseph's friend, Martin Usborne, set to a new soundtrack created on East London standup pianos.
Unsurprisingly, Markovic was a man who lived in London for 86½ years. He left only once to go to the seaside with his mother, loved the movie star Nicolas Cage, had five sugars in his tea and would have married a six foot Hispanic woman if given the chance. Wouldn't we all?
Clubhouse Studios and local businesses set out to create an experience that captured the purity and authenticity of the original book. Inspired by the format of the book, 86½ Years follows a double narrative, taking the user on a journey into Joe's life while hearing how he was instrumental in changing Martin's.
Each chapter is split into two parts and navigated intuitively with eye-tracking technology quietly working in the background to enhance the narrative. The simple closing of the eyes is all that's needed to step fully into the world of Joe's imagination.
Once closed and with the distractions of life removed, Joe begins to share this thoughts and feelings from an eclectic mix of topics ranging from money, to relationships and the Universe.
"An element of my own loneliness exists in the photos of Joseph. A good photographic portrait always captures two people: the subject & the person taking the picture," said Martin Usborne, Hoxton Mini Press, publisher of the original book.