Data Protection Act 1998: A Practical Guide
- Availability:
- Available
- Product Id:
- ukprod9780754501350DPA
- Product Code:
- DPA
- ISBN/ISSN:
- 9780754501350
- Publication Date:
- 26/06/2000
- Format:
- Price:
- £58.30
Data Protection Act 1998: A Practical Guide is designed to provide practical guidance on all aspects of the Act with particular emphasis on how it affects businesses, and how every business is required by law to implement the changes.
The rules are enforceable against all data users, whether or not they have registered.
This concise handbook looks at how the 1998 Act replaces the 1984 Act, and implements the EU General Data Protection Directive passed in 1995.
Data Protection Act 1998: A Practical Guide examines:
* The special rules introduced for the processing of sensitive data, for example, racial or ethnic origins
* The provision to restrict the transfer of data outside the UK and countries within the EU unless the transfer is necessary to perform a contract-a particularly significant provision given the increasing use of the Internet
* The extended protection to manual records
* The implications of the Act upon privacy, personnel departments, and human rights
Essential reading for company secretaries and personnel managers.
1. Data Protection Act 1984
2. Data Protection Directive
3. Background to DPA 1998
4. Definitions and interpretation
5. Rights of data subjects
6. Notification
7. Exemptions
8. Enforcement
9. Other functions of the Commissioner
10. Offences and liability
11. The Data Protection principles
12. Conditions relevant to the first principle
13. Miscellaneous exemptions
14. Transitional relief
15. Transborder dataflows
16. Technology
17. The Internet
18. Direct marketing
19. Employment
20. Medical records and the pharmeceutical industry
21. Financial services
22. The Telecommunications Directive
23. Regulations implementing DPA 1998
24. Related legislation
Cook on Costs 2012
Butterworths Company Law Handbook 25th edition
Butterworths Employment Law Handbook 19th edition
Tolley's Tax Guide 2011-12
Tolley's Yellow Tax Handbook 2011-12
