Legal Information Management
- Legal Information Management / Volume 1 / Issue 02 / Summer 2001, pp 24-27
- Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1472669600000414 (About DOI), Published online: 31 July 2008
Research Article
The Data Protection Act 1998 A Brief Summary
Abstract
If you are involved in handling information, computerised or not, which refers to identifiable living individuals, the Act probably applies to YOU.
The following is a summary (in handy menu form, and with no literary pretensions whatsoever) of the principles of the Act.The standard encyclopaedia on the subject runs to three volumes: a short article can only give an overview, and must not be taken as definitive. If you think the Act may apply, take specialist advice!
