The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became enforced on 25th May 2018 across EU Member States. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation is the result of four years of work by the EU to bring data protection legislation into line with new, previously unforeseen ways that data is now used.
The Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 is a national law which came into effect in May 2018 and updates previous data protection laws in the UK and complements the GDPR. The Act was amended in January 2021 to reflect the UK’s status outside the EU and applies the data protection standards set out in the GDPR and, where the GDPR allows EU member states to make different choices for its implementation in their country, defines those choices for the UK.
More information can be found on the Information Commissioners GDPR Website.
The Glow Agreement #
We reached a key milestone on the 28th of February 2018 when the new Glow Agreement (a revised GDPR compliant Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)) was approved and subsequently sent to all Glow customers for sign off.
The Glow Agreement replaces the current documentation and it is now a legally binding agreement with no additional data controller/processor agreements required to be signed.