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What is the UK GDPR?

UK membership of the European Union came to an end on 31 January 2020. However, EU law still continued to apply to the UK during the transition period, which came to an end on 31 December 2020. In preparation for the end of the transition period, the UK retained various pieces of EU law via the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018. This included the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, of which was further amended so as to function correctly within the UK legal framework. This resulted in the creation of the UK General Data Protection Regulation. From 1 January 2021, UK data protection law includes the following legislation:

• UK GDPR, officially known as Regulation (EU) 2016/279 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation)
• Data Protection Act 2018
• Privacy and Electronic (EC Directive) Communications Regulations 2003

<aside> ℹ️ Guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office on the UK GDPR can be found here.

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Full Text of the 🇬🇧 GDPR

<aside> 💡 The text is derived from the UK Government's Keeling Schedule for the UK GDPR (first published 13 December 2018)

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• Chapter 1 — General Provisions
• Chapter 2 — Principles
• Chapter 3 — Rights of the Data Subject
• Chapter 4 — Controller and Processor
• Chapter 5 — Transfers of Personal Data to Third Countries or International Organisations