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Data protection: GDPR principles that matter to media work

How GDPR principles apply to journalism and creative work: lawful basis, national exemptions, retention, sensitive data, subject requests and security.

Lawful basis and the journalistic exemption

Almost everything you gather about people in media work is personal data under the GDPR. A name and a photograph, certainly, but also a voice recording, an email address, a phone number, a video interview, a reader's tip-off about a neighbour, a freelancer's invoice. The test is whether information relates to an identifiable person, and identification can happen indirectly. A…

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