Late into the afternoon of Friday, February 14, Stephanie O’Callaghan, creative arts director at the Arts Council, pressed send on a high-priority email to other senior management figures at the under-pressure agency.  The email was about grant applications but not the failed IT project to upgrade the organisation’s outdated grant management system – the headline topic of that week after it emerged that a project to update the system had failed at a substantial cost to the taxpayer.   O’Callaghan’s email concerned another issue entirely. The subject read: “GDPR – urgent.”  Her concern was with how the agency was handling and…

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