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The UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the UK's version of the GDPR, which became part of UK law after Brexit. It sets out the core rules and principles for how organizations must handle and protect the personal data of data subjects in the UK, ensuring individuals have strong rights over their personal data. The UK GDPR, in conjunction with the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), forms the comprehensive data protection framework in the UK. 

Most recently, the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) has introduced several key reforms to the UK GDPR and DPA, notably implementing a "stop the clock" rule for data subject access requests, allowing data controllers to pause response times when seeking further information. It also establishes a more permissive framework for automated decision-making (ADM) using personal data, while retaining a strong prohibition for special categories of personal data unless specific exceptions (i.e., consent, performance of contract, domestic law authorization) apply.

Furthermore, the DUAA introduces "recognized legitimate interests" as a new lawful basis for non-public bodies to process personal data for purposes like national security, public security, defense, crime prevention, etc. It also imposes a new duty on online services accessed by children to consider their unique needs in service design.


The Solution

Securiti enables organizations to comply with UK GDPR through its solutions, like DSR automation, universal consent management, data breach management, and vendor risk assessment.

Securiti supports enterprises in their journey toward compliance with the UK GDPR through automation, enhanced data visibility, and identity linking.

See how Securiti helps you comply with various sections of the UK GDPR.

UK GDPR Compliance Solution

 

Automate Data Subject Rights Fulfillment

UK GDPR Articles 12, 12A

Create customized web forms according to your brand image with the DSR request format and accept verified data subject rights requests. Automate the initiation of fulfillment workflows when verified requests are received.

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Automate Fulfillment of Data Access Requests

UK GDPR Article 15

Automate the generation of secure data access reports and accelerate the delivery of verified data subject request information within a limited time frame.

Automate the Processing of Data Rectification Requests

UK GDPR Article 16

Seamlessly fulfill data rectification requests with the help of automated data subject verification workflows across all appearances of a subject’s personal data.

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Automate the Processing of Data Erasure Requests

UK GDPR Article 17

Swiftly fulfill data subjects’ erasure requests through automated and flexible workflows.

Automate the Objection and Restriction of Processing Requests

UK GDPR Articles 18, 21

Build a framework for objection and restriction of processing handling based on business requirements, with the help of collaborative workflows.

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Automate the Processing of Data Portability Requests

UK GDPR Articles 20

Automate the generation and delivery of data portability requests within a limited time frame through a secure and centralized point.

Monitor and Track Consent

UK GDPR Articles 6(1)(a), 7, 9(2)(a)

Track and honor consent grants and consent revocations, as well as any changes to data subjects’ preferences concerning the use of their personal data, and to prevent the transfer or processing of data without their consent.

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Assess Readiness

UK GDPR Articles 5, 24, 25, 32

Assess your organization's compliance with the UK GDPR requirements, identify the gaps, and address the risks with the help of our pre-built assessment templates. Seamlessly expand assessment capabilities across your vendor ecosystem to maintain continued compliance.

Map Data Flows and Generate Reports

UK GDPR Articles 30

Centralize data flow tracking with a comprehensive catalog of internal processes and transfers to third parties. Maintain updated records of processing activities to effortlessly demonstrate compliance.

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Automate Data Breach Response Notifications

​​UK GDPR Articles 33, 34

Automate compliance actions and breach notifications to concerned stakeholders in connection with the data breach incidents by leveraging a knowledge database on security incident diagnosis and response.

Assess Vendor Risks

UK GDPR Articles 28

Keep track of privacy and security readiness for all your service providers and processors from a single interface. Instantly collaborate with these vendors and manage all vendor contracts and compliance documents.

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Automate Assessments

UK GDPR Articles 35

Identify real and potential compliance risks within internal policies and external regulations. Document the entire process and maintain assessment records.

Policy and Notice Management

UK GDPR Articles 12, 13

Automatically update and refresh your policies and notices. Build and publish a privacy notice from a library of pre-built templates. Ensure your privacy notice is dynamically updated by tracking changes in cookie consent, universal consent, data processing, and data subject rights activities.

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Meet Cookie Compliance

UK GDPR Articles 6(1)(a), 7, 21

Scan websites to detect and classify tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies. Generate customized cookie banners as per the UK GDPR, track data subjects’ consent preferences, and maintain updated cookie consent records.

Key Rights Under the UK GDPR

Data controllers must respond to DSRs without undue delay, typically within one month of receipt. This period can extend by up to two additional months for complex requests, provided the individual is informed of the extension and reasons within the initial one-month timeframe. All DSR-related information must be provided free of charge, unless a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

Right of Access

Data subjects have the right to confirm if their personal data is being processed and to access that data. They can request information from the data controller on the purpose of collection, data categories, retention periods, third-party sharing or sales, data subject rights, and the existence of automated decision-making. Furthermore, the DUAA amends the right of access to add that the data subjects are only entitled to such confirmation and information that data controllers can provide upon a ‘reasonable and proportionate search’ for the personal data.


Right to Rectification

Data subjects have the right to get their inaccurate personal data corrected by the data controller without delay. They can also ask for their incomplete personal data to be completed by adding more information.


Right to Erasure

Data subjects can ask the data controllers to delete their personal data without undue delay. Data controllers must comply with the erasure request if the data is no longer needed for its original purpose. They must also delete it if consent is withdrawn and no other legal basis for processing exists. Erasure is required if the data subject objects to the processing, unless compelling reasons for processing exist. Unlawfully processed personal data must also be erased. Finally, personal data must be deleted if a domestic legal obligation requires it.


Right to Restriction of Processing

Data subjects can demand data processing restriction when there is a dispute as to the data's accuracy while the data controller verifies the accuracy. It also applies if processing is unlawful, but they prefer restriction over erasure. Furthermore, restriction can be requested if the data controller no longer needs the data, but the individual requires it for legal claims. Finally, it applies if they have objected to processing, pending verification of the data controller's legitimate grounds.


Right to Data Portability

Data subjects have the right to receive their personal data that they provided to the data controller in a structured, machine-readable format and transfer it to another data controller without hindrance. It applies only when the processing is based on consent or a contract and carried out by automated means.


Right to Object

Data subjects have the right to object, at any time, to personal data processing, including profiling, if it is based on public interest or legitimate interests. Data controllers must then cease processing unless they demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override the data subject's interests, rights, and freedoms, or for legal claims.


Right Not to be Subjected to Automated Decision-Making, Including Profiling

Data subjects have the right not to be subjected to decisions made solely by automated processes that have legal or similarly significant effects on them. Critically, while the DUAA now permits such automated decisions for non-special category personal data, it explicitly mandates safeguards, including rights to information, making representations, human intervention, and to contest the decision. A strict prohibition on solely automated decisions using special categories of personal data (e.g., health data) remains, unless specific exceptions (like explicit consent) apply.

Key Facts Related to the UK GDPR

1

The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc.) EU Exit Regulations 2019 amended the EU GDPR, resulting in the UK GDPR.

2

Depending upon the severity of data protection violation, organizations can be fined €20 million or 4% of annual global turnover (whichever is higher) and €10 million or 2% of annual global turnover (whichever is higher).

3

Data controllers must respond to all data subject rights requests without undue delay, typically within one receipt of the request. The response timeline is extendable up to two months, depending on the request complexity.

4

Data processors must assist data controllers in fulfilling their obligation to respond to the data subject rights requests.

5

DUAA received Royal Assent on 19th June 2025. Most of its provisions, including the UK GDPR changes, will come into effect on future date(s) to be decided by the UK government, most likely within the next twelve months or so.

6

Data controllers can pause the response timeline for data subject access requests when verifying the identity of the requester or seeking clarification about the scope of the request.

7

Private organizations can rely on “recognized legitimate interest” as a legal basis of processing to process personal data for certain purposes listed in DUAA Schedule 4. The list includes broad purposes categories such as safeguarding national security, public security and defence, responding to emergencies, preventing crime, and safeguarding vulnerable individuals.

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