Processing of Special Category Data under UK Data Protection Law

Introduction

Special Category Data or Sensitive Data have always required a higher level of compliance when it comes to the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Indeed, there has been an assumption that express consent is always needed to process such data. This is not the case and there are many instances where other lawful grounds are available to justify the processing of Special Category Data.

In this webinar, data protection expert Robert Bond will explain the rules relating to processing of Sensitive Data and consider if consent will become the exception rather than the norm.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• What are the rules on special category data?
• What are the conditions for processing?
• What are the exemptions from explicit consent?
• Considerations around criminal offence data, genetic and biometric data and children’s data
• Will explicit consent be the exception rather than the norm?
• Changes introduced by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025