Dear Members, the The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2025 has been published which brings into force as at 20th August 2025, large sections of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 published 19th June 2025.
The Act covers access to customer data and business data, as well as:
- to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals;
- to make provision about privacy and electronic communications; to establish the Information Commission;
- to make provision about information standards for health and social care;
- to make provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery;
- to make provision about the retention of biometric data;
- to make provision about services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services;
- to make provision about works protected by copyright and the development of artificial intelligence systems;
