A User's Guide to Data Protection, 2nd edition covers all the compliance issues that organisations need to be aware of in order to successfully comply with the UK data protection rules and regulations, along with a full assessment of the EU Data Protection Regulations and their impact on UK practice.

Since the previous edition there have been a number of significant developments such as:

-The new UK and EU data protection regime
-New requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
-New rights, principles and definition
-Increasing uses, data collections and business models surrounding personal data
-New technologies
-Enhanced rights and obligations
-Significant fines as a percentage of worldwide turnover
-Significant case law including: Google Spain 'Right to be Forgotten' case; Schrems EU-US Safe Harbour; DRI; Vidal-Hall; Tamiz; Mosley; Weltimmo; Barbulescu; Snowden issues; etc
-Increasing litigation and cases regarding data protection and damages
-Classes actions and representative bodies
-Increasing levels of fines from the ICO and in an increasing variety of breach circumstances with directors as well as companies being fined by ICO
-Individuals, including private investigators, being prosecuted for DP offences
-Advertising and marketing
-The new tools of compliance and risk reduction, risk assessments, consultations, codes of conduct, certification,
-Data breaches and data loss
-Security and reactions to data breach
-Employee monitoring
-Apps
-Data portability
-Right to be Forgotten
-Notification of security breaches
-Privacy by Design/Data Protection by Design (PbD/DPbD)

A User's Guide to Data Protection, 2nd edition, is a practical and comprehensive analysis of current law and procedure which is presented in a clear and accessible reference style.

Table of Contents
Part 1: How to Comply
Part 2: Inward Facing Data Protection
Part 3: Outward Facing Data Protection
Part 4: The New GDPR Regime
Part 5: Particular Issues