The Information Commissioner is calling for nominations for the second Practitioner Award for Excellence in Data Protection, to recognise those practitioners who go above and beyond when it comes to implementing data protection in practice. Recognising the increasingly vital role played by data protection professionals, the Commissioner says that 2018 was the year that privacy and data security went mainstream. This included a once-in-a-generation reform of data protection laws, high-profile public debates about the use of personal data, and people increasingly exercising their rights. Privacy rights remain in the international…