What is Blackthorn?
A web app for managing a range of activities
Use out of the box with simple tailoring
Supporting a range of securely separated teams
Keeping a high-integrity, contemporaneous record
Work-flow and accounting engine
Situational awareness
Uses Microsoft .Net technology
Problems in Managing 
Data Protection Activities
Hard to keep track of all activities and tasks
DPOs find it hard to adhere to response deadlines
Need to record actions to provide Positive Assurance 
Want to determine costs for Data Controller
Not easy to provide good reporting and analytics for internal use and reporting to DPC
Need to for good structure for DPC and Data Controllers to make the law work well
Blackthorn lets you manage any type and number of Proactive and/or Reactive activities
Standards-based with flavours to support specific fields e.g. PIMS (DPA, FoI, EIR, Caldicott Guardians), Physical & Security
Each activity can have one or more type
Blackthorn Activities
PIMS ACTIVITIES
Registration
Types: 
Renewal
Changes
RFI's
SARs (inc Caldicott)
S.29
S.35
FoI Requests
EIR Requests
Audits &
Assessments
Security
Risk Assessment
Policy Review
Business:
Purposes, Processes, Recipients
Retention Review
Privacy Impact
Blackthorn RC:
An ideal 
Personal Information 
Management System
Blackthorn RC
Regulatory Compliance
Blackthorn lets you achieve more with less resource: freeing up resource to work on other things!
All in a single, secure, database
Managing Data Protection
What do DPOs and the DPC need?
An effective way to communicate (securely)
A good way to manage the activities for which they are responsible
Proactive
Reactive
Proactive
P&R
Enforcement Actions
Providing a clear record of actions
Enabling trend analysis