Accountability was introduced as a basic data protection principle in the 1980s. This used to be a reactive assignment of responsibility for privacy compliance. However, under the GDPR application of ...

In reality, only one of these principles – accountability – is new to data protection rules. In the UK all the other principles are similar to those that existed under the 1998 Data Protection ...

Regulator of data protection principles needs expertise: “You know, you don’t necessarily think that the judiciary will be the right place to debate the nuances of the application of certain ...

The Srikrishna committee’s bills makes many decisions, some celebrated and some contested, about the founding principles and goals of a data protection law. ... accountability should apply.

The framework, which is an extension of the ICO’s existing Accountability Framework, provides nine distinct toolkits for areas that are likely to be analyzed during a data protection audit. These are: ...