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UK Data Protection Reform – New Data Protection and Digital Information Bill Published
Published on: 21/03/2023
Issues Covered:
Data Protection and GDPR
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Aisling Byrne Partner, A&L Goodbody (NI) LLP
Aisling Byrne Partner, A&L Goodbody (NI) LLP
Aisling byrne

Aisling Byrne is partner in A&L Goodbody's Employment & Incentives group in Belfast and has over 20 years' experience in advising on employment and equality law. Aisling advises on contentious employment litigation, employment aspects of commercial transactions and procurement. Aisling is qualified to practice in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and she is a qualified mediator. She also specialises in data protection law and she has both Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) qualifications. She regularly delivers training to businesses on GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 and she advises on a broad spectrum of data protection issues including data breaches, data protection impact assessments, data subject access requests and data sharing agreements.

The value of data to the UK economy is significant, with data-driven trade generating 85 per cent of the UK’s total service exports and contributing an estimated £259 billion to the UK economy in 2021. With that in mind, UK data protection reform is firmly back on the UK Government’s agenda with the introduction of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill ("Bill") on 8 March 2023.

The first version of the Bill was introduced in July 2022 and legislative reform had been on hold since September 2022, but 6 months on, we now have a new iteration of the Bill to consider.  Introduced by the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, the Bill

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Disclaimer The information in this article is provided as part of Legal Island's Employment Law Hub. We regret we are not able to respond to requests for specific legal or HR queries and recommend that professional advice is obtained before relying on information supplied anywhere within this article. This article is correct at 21/03/2023
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