1. Data Protection Act

2. Learning Outcome
LO1: Define what the Data protection act is.

3. What private information could be stored about you?

4. Data Protection Act (1998) What is it and why was it created?
The Data Protection Act was developed to give protection and lay down the rules about how personal data can be used.
It was created to protect individuals from misuse of this data. It governs the collection and processing of data by organisations and the individual rights to access the data if they wish.

5. Data Protection Act (1998) What are the eight principles of it?
Data must be kept secure;
Data stored must be relevant;
Data stored must be kept no longer than necessary;
Data stored must be kept accurate and up-to-date;
5. Data must be obtained and processed lawfully;
6. Data must be processed within the data subject rights;
7. Data must be obtained and specified for lawful purposes;
8. Data must not be transferred to countries without adequate data protection laws.

6. Data Protection Act (1998) What rights do we have as data subjects?
To be supplied with the data held about us;
To change incorrect data;
To prevent data being used about us if it will cause distress;
To stop data being used in attempts to sell us something;
To use the law to gain compensation.
Compensation, Distress, Stop data, Incorrect, Supplied