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Data Protection 1998
- The Data Protection Act controls how your
personal information is used by
organisations, businesses or the government.
- Everyone responsible for using data
has to follow strict rules called ‘data
protection principles’
- It needs to be used fairly
and lawfully
- It cannot be kept longer than
absolutely necessary.
- It needs to be kept
safe and secured
- You must make sure the information is
handled according to people's data
protection rights
- The Data Protection Act gives you the
right to find out what information the
government and other organisations
stores about you.
- There are some situations when organisations are
allowed to withhold information, eg if the
information’s about: the prevention, detection or
investigation of a crime national security or the
armed forces the assessment or collection of tax
judicial or ministerial appointments.
- Some organisations may charge you for
providing the information. The cost is
usually no more than £10 but it can be more
if the information is contained within
either: certain types of records, eg health or
education records a large number of paper
records held in an unstructured way by a
public authority
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