The UK Government has published a statement of intent, setting out details of the forthcoming Data Protection Bill. The Bill will be published next month and will give effect to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the UK from May 2018. The statement follows on from the Government’s “call for views” in April on how it should implement the permitted exemptions within the GDPR (to which it received 324 responses) and the Government’s commitment to introducing th