Subjects:

Data Protection

Contents:

Introduction, background & history of the legislation

The development of privacy from the law of confidence and the Human Rights Act 1998

Interpretation of the Act and key definitions

Relation with freedom of information

The principles

Legitimate processing

Sensitive data

Overseas or cross-border transfers of personal data

Notification

Individual rights

Subject access

Rights to prevent processing

Rights relating to automated decisions

Compensation and other individual remedies

Exemptions for regulation, national security, crime control and taxation

Exemptions for the protection of the individual family, health, social work, and schools information

Exemptions for special purposes: journalistic, literary and artistic

Research

Miscellaneous exemptions

Enforcement and prosecutions

Enforced subject access

Transitional provisions

The Commissioner

Information tribunal

European databases

Electronic communication, the Telecommunications Regulations 1999 and Directive 2002/58

Data protection

Data Protection Law and Practice gives you a comprehensive review of the full scope of data protection law in the UK through expert analysis of legislation and case law. You will find indispensable material spanning an explanation of the principles of data protection, the rules covering electronic marketing, governing monitoring and surveillance plus guidance on the intricacies of data protection.

• Goes through the principles of data protection and privacy laws clarifying the background to the EU and UK legislation and explaining how this affects the law that the law works in practice
• Delivers a comprehensive treatment of data protection law giving you a clear reference guide to all the essential Data Protection issues
• Provides a clear and up-to-date analysis of the associated development of confidentiality and privacy cases under Human Rights Law in the UK and reviews the practical impact of these development
• Explains the rules governing the uses of personal data for electronic marketing and other marketing
• Guides the user through the laws which apply to surveillance and monitoring of employees and others
• Takes you through every phase of a case, from the rights of the individual, exemptions, and enforcements of the Data Protection Act
• Provides new material on data protection laws of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey
• Presents the relationship between the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act, helping to clarify any grey areas between the two Acts
• Provides guidance on relevant European and International developments such as the sharing of airline passenger data, the work of the Article 29 Group of the EU and the role of the European data supervisor
• Features a detailed chapter on the pan-European databases and their development and governance including Europol, Schengen and other systems
• Find practical tools for day-to-day use throughout the text including; precedents, case studies, sample forms and letters