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 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…
Originally published on the Anthony Collins website on Wednesday 14 October 2020 Sorry, what? Why on earth is our director, Clare Paterson, quoting 19th-century poetry in an article about Data Protection and Subject Access Requests (SARs)? Here she explains the similarities…
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…
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…
