Charting the UK Data Protection Profession: March 2022 Report

Welcome to the latest research report from the UK Data Protection Index Report, brought to you by Data Protection World Forum and The DPO Centre.

Over the past 21 months, we have quizzed our panel of UK-based Data Protection Officers (DPOs) every quarter, asking a consistent set of baseline questions. In the ever-shifting privacy landscape, this has allowed us to track the changing attitudes and opinions of the industry’s experts for the very first time.

This quarter, we asked our panel of 497 DPOs about a range of issues, including:

• UK and EU GDPR challenges
• Compliance within their organisations
• The potential impact of upcoming reforms to UK data protection law
• The effectiveness of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
• How they feel about their roles, including on topics such as staff training and third party due diligence