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 th