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সারসংক্ষেপ
The Data Protection Act 2018 supplements the UK GDPR and provides the domestic framework for data protection in the UK. It sets out rules for processing personal data, establishes the role of the Information Commissioner, and provides for enforcement and penalties.
মূল পয়েন্ট
- Supplements and tailors the UK GDPR for the UK context
- Provides exemptions from certain data subject rights for purposes including national security, crime prevention, and journalism
- Establishes the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as the independent supervisory authority
- ICO can impose fines of up to £17.5 million or 4% of annual worldwide turnover
- Provides for data protection impact assessments for high-risk processing
- Special category data (health, race, religion, etc.) requires additional safeguards
- Creates criminal offences for unlawfully obtaining personal data
- Supplements and adapts UK GDPR for domestic purposes (Part 2)
- Lawful bases for processing personal data
- Data subject rights: access, rectification, erasure, portability
- Special category data and criminal offence data (Schedule 1)
- Journalism, academic, artistic, and literary exemptions (Schedule 2)
- Law enforcement processing (Part 3)
- Information Commissioner's powers and enforcement (Part 5-6)
অংশ ও ধারা
সংশোধনীর ইতিহাস
2020 — Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Created the UK GDPR by adapting the EU GDPR for the UK post-Brexit.