Lesson 4 of 8
Personal data: consent, purpose, retention, access and transfers abroad
A lending system holds identity documents, income, bank details and repayment histories. This lesson sets out the principles that data protection laws in many markets share, and what each means for the system: consent and purpose, retention, access and correction, security, and sending data to another country.
Published 2 November 2026 · Listen to this lesson
In this lesson
- Principles that many laws share
- Consent and purpose
- Retention: keep what you must, and no longer
- Access, correction and security
- Sending data to another country