Are you ready if a client wishes to make a data protection claim, or needs to defend one? A User's Guide to Data Protection: Law and Policy, Third Edition sets out all the compliance issues that organisations need to be aware of to successfully comply with the UK data protection rules and regulations, along with a full assessment of the EU Data Protection Regulations and their impact on UK practice. This work is a first port of call, providing clear guidance through the complex web of data protection issues and regulation in relation both to internal issues affecting employees, agents and contractors as well as external issues concerning customers, prospective customers and users across all data interface. The Third Edition includes analysis of all new cases and in-depth coverage of: - The new UK Data Protection Act 2018 - The repeal of the Data Protection Act 1998 (subject to transitional arrangements) - The General Data Protection Regulations - The latest information on Commissioner Office investigations, reports, guidance and proceedings - Brexit and data protection issues including the need for an EU Data Adequacy - Decision and post-Brexit data protection implications - Significant increased fines and penalties regime; and data protection competition law comparisons - The latest position on the Right to be Forgotten - International developments and issues, the cloud, the internet, revenge porn and online abuse - Security issues - Data protection, e-commerce and electronic communications data protection law update

...the book offers very useful guidance, from a practical perspective, on the operation of the data protection regime in the United Kingdom...a comprehensive source of reference on all matters relating to data protection. -- Review of 2nd Edition * Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyer's Association *
A User's Guide to Data Protection is an excellent address for reference and an essential guide for data protection issues...an essential handbook for everyone facing data protection issues in the UK. -- Review of 1st edition * German-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce *

Dr Paul Lambert, BA LLB LLM, Lecturer, Solicitor, CTMA, PhD, Consultant, has been publishing articles in legal and business journals on topics such as data protection, social media, defamation, internet legal issues, intellectual property and courtroom broadcasting for many years, including the European Intellectual Property Review. He has published books in the US and Europe and spoken and written, and been interviewed, on these issues in the US, Europe and Asia.