The 1998 Data Protection Act in the UK largely restates existing good practice: individuals have a right to know what data are held about them and why; and those processing data have a duty to proceed ...

Most people associate data protection with legislation, most recently the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR). However, it should be appreciated that this ...

Ann Bevitt of Morrison & Foerster (UK) LLP examines the data protection issues facing both sellers and buyers during the course of a business or share sale. The recent introduction of fines of up to ...

The Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 is the UK’s data protection law. It brings the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into the UK’s legal system and defines how personal data should be ...

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham has welcomed the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018, which has been given Royal Assent after nearly a year of debate and consultation to provide a new privacy ...