Where to start? Our Director, Clare Paterson, was invited to speak on a panel at the Housing Community Summit 2025 on the topic of “AI ethics”. It was a great opportunity to get the conversation going, and here Clare shares…
Right now, across the UK social housing sector, a troubling pattern is emerging; the over-collection and under-use of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) data. Tenants are being asked to hand over intimate details – ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity,…
While it’s always encouraging to see the social housing sector embrace data protection, it’s disheartening to see the image used on an article in Social Housing magazine on Data Protection Day 2025 is the same old padlock, and – more…
The local authority has requested named and detailed support plans for all residents, plus details of all interactions between the staff and the victims of abuse. Details that would disclose highly sensitive information, and special categories of personal data, about women and children who may well be living in fear for their lives...
The National Housing Federation (NHF) recently released a proposal about the types of data they believe landlords would find useful to collect about their residents. The web page is here, and the link at the bottom allow NHF members to…
This is an abridged extract from our Director, Clare Paterson’s, book, “A Practical Guide to Data Protection in Social Housing”, published by Law Brief Publishing Ltd (see details at the end): “The term ‘data protection’ doesn’t do itself justice, because…
With all the news about the PSNI data breach this week, I was reminded of something that happened many years ago, when I worked in-house at a housing association; an executive director emailed me about a news story and asked…
Our Director and Consultant, Clare Paterson, gives an update on her view of data protection and how it is looking at the beginning of 2023: “In housing in particular, but this happens in just about every sector that I’ve worked…
Data protection law is often viewed as a necessary evil, and a lot of ‘red tape’. But this doesn’t mean that data protection officers (DPOs) and other professionals in the field of data protection should be seen in the same…
Hitting perimenopause in my early 40s, with young children, has been a shock to my system! In this video I share some ideas I’ve gathered from my research into supporting menopause, added to my data protection expertise, to highlight some…
