Data Protection and Compliance, 2nd Edition

2 INTRODUCTION TO THE GDPR

Stewart Room and Michelle Maher

This chapter takes a closer look at the General Data Protection Regulation, expanding upon the introduction in Chapter 1 to lay more of the foundations for analysis and discussion in subsequent chapters. Issues covered in this chapter are the jurisdiction and territorial scope of the regulation, its material scope, the building blocks of the law, the critical outcomes to be achieved, and the impacts of Brexit.

BREXIT: THE IMPACTS FOR DATA PROTECTION AND THE IMPACTS FOR THIS BOOK

Brexit has had and will continue to have profound implications for the UK legal system. One of the central ideas of Brexit is that the UK is no longer subject to EU law, but in many respects it still has ...