The Data Protection Bill: Turning the task of navigating the high seas of data protection into plain
Thursday, 14 September 2017 was an exciting day for data protection practitioners. Why? It was the day that the UK Government finally published its long-awaited Data Protection Bill (DPB) to apply the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into UK law and replace the existing Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). As someone with a passion for data protection and privacy law for almost two decades, my face lit up as I clicked on the link on the UK Parliament’s website and the DPB was exposed to me in all of its splendour. 7 parts, 194 sections and 18 schedules, spread over 218 pages. While not comparable in size to the likes of the Companies Act 2006, the DPB is not to be shirked at for a
