{"id":7853,"date":"2018-02-14T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bantuat.org\/?p=7853"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:33:10","slug":"general-data-protection-regulations-gdpr-countdown-to-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/general-data-protection-regulations-gdpr-countdown-to-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS (GDPR) \u2013 COUNTDOWN TO COMPLIANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What are the Data Protection Regulations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently data protection in the UK is regulated by the Data Protection Act 1998.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On 25th May 2018 the Data Protection Act will be replaced by the European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GDPR gives more rights to individuals in the processing of their personal data which means that individuals can request access, corrections and removal of their personal information in ways that weren\u2019t available before.\u00a0 There is also a focus on transparency with privacy notices detailing how data will be used and a requirement for procedures documenting exactly how data will be processed and secured.<\/p>\n<p>The new regulation requires clearer evidence of consent from individuals and some methods of recording consent will no longer be valid. Additionally, GDPR gives greater powers to the ICO (Information Commissioner\u2019s Office) to investigate organisations and breaches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/admin.peamailer.com\/t\/ViewEmail\/r\/3DD8ECAD31136B4C2540EF23F30FEDED\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view the eblast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the Data Protection Regulations? Currently data protection in the UK is regulated by the Data Protection Act 1998.\u00a0\u00a0 On 25th May 2018 the Data Protection Act will be replaced by the European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).\u00a0\u00a0 GDPR gives more rights to individuals in the processing of their personal data which means that individuals can request access, corrections and removal of their personal information in ways that weren\u2019t available before.\u00a0 There is also a focus on transparency with privacy notices detailing how data will be used and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eblast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}