Following the Durant Case – Is the Data Protection Act 1998 now pointless???

[John Trent]

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’