UK GDPR Principles

Background to the principles

Principle 1: Lawfulness, fairness and transparency

Principle 2: Purpose limitation

Principle 3: Data minimisation

Principle 4: Accuracy

Principle 5: Storage limitation

Principle 6: Integrity and confidentiality (security)

Principle 7: Accountability

Quiz: UK GDPR Principles

Data subject rights

Introduction to Data Subject Rights

UK GDPR Compliance

What does compliance look like?

How do we maintain compliance?

Background to the principles

The UK GDPR is based on seven key principles:

Lawfulness, fairness and transparency
Purpose limitation
Data minimisation
Accuracy
Storage limitation
Integrity and confidentiality (security)
Accountability

These principles must lie at the centre of your approach to data protection, and you must be able to demonstrate compliance with each one of them.

We will examine each of the UK GDPR principles, and by the end of this sectionyou will be able to:

List the UK GDPR principles
Explain the meaning of each principle
Give examples of how each principle might be demonstrated