Data Governance Atlas UK edition

Checklists

16 interactive checklists across every regime on the site. Each item names its statutory basis; ticks stay in your browser and never leave it. Screening checklists tell you whether a duty is triggered, condition checklists whether every condition is met, and working records keep the evidence of what you did.

Data protection

Automated decision safeguards (Arts 22A to 22D)

Check a solely automated significant decision against the UK safeguards model that replaced Art 22 from 2026-02-05.

Breach: should the Information Commission be told?

A 72-hour screen for a personal data breach: does it meet the risk threshold for notifying the regulator, and what must the notification contain?

Children's data by design

Check an online service likely to be accessed by children against the Age Appropriate Design Code's fifteen standards and the DUAA duty on children's higher protection matters.

Data protection complaints (s.164A)

Check a controller's complaints process against the duty that applies to complaints received from 2026-06-19.

DPIA screening

Screen a project for the cases where a data protection impact assessment is mandatory, before the processing starts.

Legitimate interests assessment

Run the three-part test for UK GDPR Art 6(1)(f), after first checking whether the purpose is a recognised legitimate interest that needs no balancing test.

Processor contract terms (Art 28)

Check a controller to processor contract contains the terms Art 28(3) requires.

Records of processing (Art 30)

Check a record of processing activities holds every field Art 30(1) requires of a controller.

Restricted transfer check

Work through a transfer of personal data out of the UK: is it restricted, which route applies, and is the data protection test met and recorded?

Special category condition

Find an Art 9(2) condition for special category data, and the DPA 2018 Schedule 1 condition where the UK requires one.

Subject access: intake and stop-the-clock assessment

Work a subject access request from receipt to response, recording each decision that stops the clock, extends it or narrows the search.

Electronic communications

Freedom of information

Environmental information