Taking data compliance from burden to opportunity

As a business leader, whilst you don’t need to be a regulation expert, a robust knowledge of the UK’s data protection principles can help your business overcome concerns and potential pitfalls around establishing new data processes. By understanding the compliance landscape, you can turn a potential barrier into an opportunity, create tailored approaches that actually reduce your compliance burden and better support your business’ operations.

 The 2018 Data Protection Act and UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) form the foundation of UK data law. But businesses tell us that the size and complexity of these laws can be a barrier to taking on new approaches to collecting and using data. The perceived risk of making a mistake has made some businesses averse to using new data strategies to achieve their goals. But, compliance does not have to be a barrier to maximising the data opportunity.

Use this resource for an overview of the UK’s data protection legislation. The compliance roadmap below will also equip your business to begin navigating the data protection landscape with confidence.

The principles underpinning data protection

UK Data Protection legislation is built on seven principles that should lie at the heart of your approach to processing personal data.

As put by the ICO: these principles are set out right at the start of the Data Protection legislation and inform everything that follows. They are not hard and fast rules but inform the spirit of the general data protection regime. Ensuring your business is complying with the spirit of these principles must be a fundamental building block of your data protection practice.

Find out more about these principles directly from the ICO.