Data Protection : Law and Practice

What is Data Protection?

Data protection is an area of law that affects all of the public and private sector. It is linked to the developing law of privacy and the increased internationalisation of data management standards, as well as cybersecurity. The growth of outsourcing, technological developments and information uses in society means that the law governing this area is of increasing importance, particularly in the context of new media and platforms. The EU General Data Protection Regulation is the most important legislative change to affect the data protection landscape since the 1998 Data Protection Act and has implemented in the UK via the Data Protection Act 2018.

Data Protection Law and Practice, 5th edition, provides a comprehensive and expert review of the current state of data protection law in the UK, together with the background to the law.

It covers the General Data Protection Regulation, its application in the UK under the Data Protection Act 2018, the implementation of Directive 2016/680 (the Law Enforcement Directive) and the new data protection regime which governs the UK intelligence services, as well as the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations and the revised rules on the monitoring of business communications. Both the current application of the GDPR and its application after Brexit are considered in every chapter, as are the rules which apply to the processing of personal data for law enforcement purposes and the new rules for the processing of personal data by the intelligence services.