The United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (UK GDPR) provides various requirements concerning data transparency.
The terms ‘privacy policy’, ‘data protection policy’, ‘privacy notice’, ‘privacy statements’, ‘fair processing notices’ and ‘data protection notice’ are interchangeable.
For an introduction to the UK GDPR, see Practice Notes: Introduction to the EU GDPR and UK GDPR and The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
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Transparency is an overarching obligation under the UK GDPR
The concept is embodied in the lawfulness, fairness and transparency principle under Article 5(1)(a) of the UK GDPR, which requires personal data to be ‘processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject’.
However,...
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