Data Protection Law & Practice - 9780421954700

Product Description

Providing you with a comprehensive review of the full scope of data protection law in the UK through expert analysis of legislation and case law, Data Protection Law and Practice:

Examines the principles of data protection and privacy laws, clarifying the background to EU and UK legislation
Delivers a comprehensive treatment of data protection law to give you a clear reference guide to all the essential data protection issues
Provides you with a clear and up-to-date analysis of the associated development of confidentiality and privacy cases under human rights law in the UK
Explains the rules governing the uses of personal data for electronic marketing and other marketing
Guides you 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 to exemptions and enforcements of the Data Protection Act
Looks at the relationship between the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act, helping to clarify any grey areas between the two Acts
Provides, throughout the text, practical tools for day-to-day, including precedents, case studies, sample forms and letters

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Contents

Introduction, background and history of the legislation
The development of privacy and the misuse of private information
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 the special purposes: journalistic, literary and artistic
Research
Miscellaneous exemptions
Enforcement and prosecutions
Enforced subject access
Electronic marketing rules
Monitoring and surveillance
European databases
The commissioner
Information tribunal

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Reviews

Perfect for practitioners and compliance officers - IMIS Journal

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