Guidance

Data Protection Act: Intelligence Services Processing

This Part of the Act concerns the processing of personal data by intelligence services.

From:
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Home Office, and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Published
25 May 2018

Documents

Intelligence Services Processing Factsheet

PDF, 261 KB, 4 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email enquiries@dcms.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Draft modernised convention for the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data (convention 108)

PDF, 161 KB, 11 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email enquiries@dcms.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

This Part of the Act provides a specific regime for the processing of personal data by the intelligence services.

This Act:

  • updates the laws governing the processing of personal data by the intelligence services

  • ensures that the laws in this area are in line with international standards, while ensuring that the intelligence community and others can continue to keep the UK safe at a time of a heightened and unprecedented terrorist threat

Published 25 May 2018

Related content