Data Protection and Online Safety: Finding the Balance in Digital Identity, Paul Holland, Beyond Encryption (#39)

<p><strong>Online safety depends on knowing enough about people to protect them.</strong></p><p><strong>Data protection asks a quieter question: how much do we really need to know?</strong></p><p>The Online Safety Act and UK data protection law are often spoken about separately.</p><p>In practice, they meet at one of the most sensitive points in digital life: how organisations verify people, protect children, limit access, and keep data collection proportionate.</p><p>The same tension appears in age assurance, subject access requests (SARs), standard email, digital identity, and the practical steps leadership teams can take without the work becoming overwhelming.</p><p>For this episode, we caught up with Founder and CEO of Beyond Encryption Paul Holland, to talk about how organisations can balance safety, privacy, and identity, in real-world customer journeys.</p><p>Learn more on our website: https://www.beyondencryption.com/blog/data-protection-online-safety</p>