On 16 August 2012, the ICO published guidance on deleting personal data under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). The guidance describes how organisations can ensure compliance with the DPA when they ...

New guidance defines when electronically held personal data is "beyond use" once deleted. As part of its mission to assist companies to understand and fulfil their obligations under the UK's Data ...

Most people associate data protection with legislation, most recently the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR). However, it should be appreciated that this ...

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, individuals have a right of access to their personal data processed by an organization. A recent case, Michael John Durant v Financial Services Authority [2003] ...

The Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 is the UK’s data protection law. It brings the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into the UK’s legal system and defines how personal data should be ...

eThing has launched íData Protection and Youí, an engaging e-learning programme aimed at teaching the eight principles of Data Protection legislation to employees within companies that handle personal ...

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham has welcomed the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018, which has been given Royal Assent after nearly a year of debate and consultation to provide a new privacy ...

The Data Protection Act 1998 took effect on 1 March 2000. The Act contains a number of regulations that impact on the hiring process of companies - to ensure that the process is fair and that ...

The European Commission on Friday issued its first assessment of the 1995 Data Protection Directive, arguing that data protection legislation has achieved many of its aims, but admitting it still ...

British Council has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act after losing an unencrypted computer disc containing the sensitive data of 2,000 employees. In December 2008, the disc went missing ...