UK Data Protection Act of 2018

UK GDPR: is an acronym for the retained EU law version of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) (2016/679) (EU GDPR). The provisions of the EU GDPR have been incorporated directly into the laws of the UK as the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. The UK GDPR came into effect on 1 January 2021, following the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020 and sits alongside and supplements the Data Protection Act (2018) (DPA 2018).