| Following the Durant Case – Is the Data Protection Act 1998 now pointless??? As your Personal Information can now be processed by U.K. Data Controllers in Manual Filing Systems that are not, or no longer, subject to the protection of the DPA1998 - with the blessing of the Information Commissioner.
What the Information Commissioner is not telling you in his ‘PERSONAL INFORMATION TOOLKIT’!
(http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_the_public/topic_specific_guides/personal_information_toolkit.aspx)
“You have the right to access INFORMATION that organisations hold about you. Asking them for your information is known as making a Subject Access Request” - PAGE 10.
The Information Commissioner’s advice is not technically correct - Under a DPA1998 Subject Access Request, you are only entitled to receive a specific type of information known as ‘Personal Data’; and I have been told that it is likely that not all of the information about you being processed by U.K Data Controllers will be being processed as ‘Personal Data’ |