DPA & GDPR Flashcards
The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) came into effect in May 2018, to coincide with the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Law Enforcement Directive (LED) 2016/680/EC .
TRUE
What is the aim of the coincide with the implementation?
To modernise data protection laws to
ensure they are effective in the years to come.
The GDPR has direct effect across all EU Member States
True
Also the organisations have to comply with the GDPR
True
GDPR allows Member States limited opportunities to make provisions for how it applies in their country.
True
In the UK, GDPR, have been included as part of the DPA 2018.
True
It’s important the GDPR and the DPA 2018 are read side by side.
True
The main elements of the DPA 2018 include the following:
General data processing:
Ensure that sensitive health, social care and education data can continue to be processed to ensure continued confidentiality in health and safeguarding situations can
be maintained.
Implement GDPR standards across all general data processing.
Provide appropriate restrictions to rights to access and delete data to allow certain processing currently undertaken to continue where there is a strong public policy justification, including for national security purposes.
Provide clarity on the definitions used in the GDPR in the UK context.
Set the age from which parental consent is not needed to process data online at age 13, supported by a new age-appropriate design code enforced by the Information Commissioner.
Set the age from which parental consent is not needed to process data online at age 13, supported by a new age-appropriate design code enforced by the Information Commissioner. what is this?
Main elements of the DPA 2018 of the General Data Processing
Provide clarity on the definitions used in the GDPR in the UK context??
Main elements of the DPA 2018 of the General Data Processing
Provide appropriate restrictions to rights to access and delete data to allow certain processing currently undertaken to continue where there is a strong public policy justification, including for national security purposes. what is this?
Main elements of the DPA 2018 of the General Data Processing
Ensure that sensitive health, social care and education data can continue to be processed to ensure continued confidentiality in health and safeguarding situations can be maintained. what is this??
Main elements of the DPA 2018 of the General Data Processing
Implement GDPR standards across all general data processing?
Main elements of the DPA 2018 of the General Data Processing
Ensuring that sensitive health, social care and education data can continue to be processed to To ensure continued confidentiality in health and safeguarding situations can be maintained.
, what is this process?? :
Main elements of the DPA 2018 of the General Data Processing
What is this process relating to?
General Data Processing
Implement GDPR standards across all general data processing.
True
Provide appropriate restrictions to rights to access and delete data to allow certain processing currently undertaken to continue where there is a strong public policy justification, including for national security purposes.
True
What do National Security Purposes include for continuing processing?
The appropriate restrictions to rights to access and delete data to allow certain processing undertaken to continue when there is strong public policy justification.
Provide clarity on the definitions used in the GDPR in the UK context.
True
Setting the age from which parental consent is not needed to process data online at age 13, and supported by a new age-appropriate design code enforced by the?
:Information Commissioner.
Regulation and enforcement
Enact additional powers for the Information Commissioner who will continue to regulate and enforce data protection laws.
• Allow the Commissioner to levy higher administrative fines on data controllers and processors for the most serious data breaches; being up to £17m (€20m) or 4% of global turnover.
• Empower the Commissioner to bring criminal proceedings for offences where a data controller or processor alters records with intent to prevent disclosure following a subject access request.
To levy higher administrative fines on data controllers and processors for the most serious data breaches; being up to £17m (€20m) or 4% of global turnover is the responsibility of:
The Commissioner in
Regulation and Enforcement
Empowering the Commissioner to bring criminal proceedings for offences where a data controller or processor alters records with intent to prevent disclosure following a subject access request.
True
Regulation and Enforcement
Enact additional powers for the Information Commissioner who will continue to regulate and enforce data protection laws.
True
Regulation and Enforcement
Who will continue to regulate and enforce data protection law and requires additional powers?
Information Commissioner
Administrative fines, for most serious data breaches are on the?
Data controllers and processors.
How much is the fine?
Up to £17m (€20m) or 4% of global turnover.
Who does the GDPR apply to?
The GDPR applies to ‘controllers’ and ‘processors’.
The definitions are broadly the same as under the now superseded:
Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998) –
What’s the difference between the data controller and the data processor?
The controller says how and why personal data is processed and the processor acts on the controller’s behalf.
The GDPR places specific legal obligations on:
Processors
Firms are required to maintain records of personal data and processing activities.
True
A firm has significantly more legal liability if it is responsible for a breach.
True
These obligations for processors are a new requirement under the GDPR.
True
Controllers are not relieved of their obligations where a processor is involved
True
the GDPR places further obligations on controllers:
To ensure their contracts with processors comply with the GDPR.
What information does the GDPR apply to?
The GDPR applies to personal data.