UK Data Protection Act 2018
What is UK Data Protection Act 2018?
The UK Data Protection Act 2018 supplements the UK GDPR (retained EU law) and implements the Law Enforcement Directive provisions. It sets out the framework for data protection in the UK including the role and powers of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), processing conditions for law enforcement and intelligence services, and UK-specific derogations. It comprises 5 controls organised across 5 domains, and applies in the United Kingdom.
How UK Data Protection Act 2018 maps to other frameworks
All 5 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 5 domains UK Data Protection Act 2018 groups its controls into
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Questions people ask about UK Data Protection Act 2018
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Query UK Data Protection Act 2018 programmatically
UK Data Protection Act 2018, its 5 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
UK Data Protection Act 2018 API reference and MCP config →What UK Data Protection Act 2018 requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one UK Data Protection Act 2018 control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
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