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Data definition

What does Data mean? In legal practice, data describes information recorded in any form—especially electronically stored information (ESI)—organised or capable of being organised for a particular purpose, and capable of being processed or transmitted. It covers structured and unstructured material such as database entries, spreadsheets, emails and messaging content, documents, images, audio/video, metadata, system logs, backups and cloud-stored content. Data is not defined in the Civil Procedure Rules of England and Wales (nor generally in equivalent court rules), which instead use the broad concept of a document as anything in which information is recorded, encompassing electronic data and metadata. Statutes define data contextually: UK GDPR...

Archived UK DPDI Bill—proposed reforms to UK GDPR, DPA 2018, PECR, ICO reform and enforcement; Bill fell on dissolution, 30 May 2024

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Practice notes

ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note provides information about the data protection and Digital Information Bill introduced to Parliament in March 2023.

This bill did not obtain Royal Assent before Parliament was dissolved on 30 May 2024 and consequently dropped from the legislative agenda—see LNB News 29/05/2024 66 and News Analysis: General election announced for 4 July 2024. This Practice Note is supplied for context only and is not updated. For broader developments on data protection reform, see Practice Notes: The Data Protection Act 2018—timeline and UK ePrivacy law reform—tracker.

This Practice Note outlines principal elements of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill as published on 6 December 2023 (the Bill), which would have amended:

United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (UK GDPR)
Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018)
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR 2003), SI 2003/2426

The Bill entered Parliament in the 2022–23 session as the ‘Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill’ and was later retitled the ‘Data Protection and Digital Information Bill’ for the 2023–24 session...

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