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Data (Use and Access) Act 2025: Key UK GDPR, PECR and ICO reforms for practitioners: research, legitimate interests, automated decision-making, children’s design, international transfers, complaints, enforcement and commencement

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This Practice Note provides a summary of the key aspects of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025) from an information law perspective.

DUAA 2025 obtained Royal Assent on 19 June 2025 and certain provisions commenced immediately. Most measures will only take effect once supporting secondary legislation is made. For details on the commencement timetable for DUAA 2025, refer to: LNB News 19/06/2025 46, LNB News 28/07/2025 33, and the Commencement section below. See the Parliament website for the Act’s text and the accompanying explanatory notes.

The Act is arranged into seven parts:

  • Part 1 concerns access to customer and business data, seeking to expand the use of ‘smart data’ beyond its current use in open banking in the finance sector
  • Part 2 governs the provision of digital verification services by establishing a trust framework, a register of providers, an information sharing gateway, and a trust mark
  • Part 3 places the national underground asset register on a statutory footing
  • Part 4 modernises the way births and deaths are registered, shifting from a paper-based system to an electronic...
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