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United Kingdom — AI Governance Cheat Sheet

Europe · 12 laws tracked · Refreshed 2026-05-15

Key laws

LawStatusDate
UK GDPRIn force2021-01-01
DPA 2018In force2018-05-25
OSA 2023In force2024-03-01
UK AI FrameworkIn force2023-03-29
DMCC Act 2024In force2025-01-01
Equality Act 2010In force2010-10-01

Articles by topic

  • UK GDPR UK GDPR Art. 5: principles for processing personal data (lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity and confidentiality, accountability)
  • UK GDPR UK GDPR Art. 6: lawful basis for processing
  • UK GDPR UK GDPR Art. 22: automated individual decision-making including profiling — right to human review of solely automated decisions with legal/significant effects
  • UK GDPR UK GDPR Art. 25: data protection by design and by default
  • DPA 2018 DPA 2018 s.10: automated individual decisions in law-enforcement processing — Article-22-equivalent for Part 3
  • DPA 2018 DPA 2018 Pt 3: law-enforcement processing — UK transposition of EU Law Enforcement Directive 2016/680
  • DPA 2018 DPA 2018 Pt 4: intelligence-services processing
  • DPA 2018 DPA 2018 Sch. 1: conditions for processing special-category data (UK GDPR Art. 9 grounds) and criminal-offence data (UK GDPR Art. 10)