Oh FAX.... GDPR isn't just about cyber!
Chris Hunter
Co founder at HM Network. Yellow-Green and/or Yellow-Blue ecolours. Award winning connectivity, telecoms and communications specialists, taking away all manner of pain for businesses. We like to help. Can we help you?
Fax is secure right? Hmm. This is especially for the attention for people working in finance, legal, public sector and education.
Having spoken to someone in the financial sector lately about GDPR, the chap had brought the matter up on an internal call with his boss. His boss had not heard about GDPR alarmingly. After he then brought it up on an internal catch up call was told "we are OK, our GDPR project is under control.... our IT said so..." then consider this.
It is vital people understand that GDPR is not just about IT or cyber security. It is also heavily focussed making sure your staff are properly trained, breaches being identified and reported, and existing cultures changed to adopt privacy at the heart of data control and processing.
In 2010, a council sent 2 x faxes to a wrong number by mistake and the transmission ended up going to a member of the public. The info was sensitive. The council ended up having action taken and a ￡100,000 fine being issued. This was simply down to human error. Not an IT or hacking issue. The ICO advised that the council could have sent a test fax first to ensure it was the right number or made a telephone call to check, but instead just sent the fax.
A simple staff error resulted in a ￡100,000 fine. Note that this is under existing rules.
In May 2018 under GDPR the fines are increasing exponentially to around ￡17M or 4% of global turnover.
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