UNDERSTANDING THE DEFINITIONS

The DPA uses several specific terms and it helps to understand these. The DPA coverspersonal data. This means information which is held on a computer or in a relevantfiling systemand which relates to a living individual who can be identified from that information, or that and other information in th...

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Published inData Protection Compliance in the UK pp. 13 - 3
Main Authors Jay, Rosemary, Clarke, Jenna
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom IT Governance Publishing 2010
IT Governance Ltd
Edition2
Subjects
Data protection law
Filing systems
Information management
Information relevance
Information retrieval
Information science
Information search and retrieval
Legal aspects of computing
Mobile & Web Applications
Personal information
Privacy & data protection
Retrieval effectiveness
Software Engineering
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Summary:The DPA uses several specific terms and it helps to understand these. The DPA coverspersonal data. This means information which is held on a computer or in a relevantfiling systemand which relates to a living individual who can be identified from that information, or that and other information in the possession of thedata controller(see below). It does not matter that the other information is held by a different department. Where public authorities are concerned, an even wider range of information is covered when it comes to dealing with rights of access to the information. If
ISBN:9781849280471
1849280479
1849280487
9781849280488