Ministry calls for opinions on Data Protection Act
07/07/2010
The Ministry of Justice has issued a Call for Evidence on the UK's Data Protection Act to assess how individuals and businesses view the laws and whether they need to be strengthened.
Information obtained by the ministry will be used to decide how the UK will implement a new European Union tool for data protection, which is due to be introduced next year.
"As individuals, we have the right to know that our data is properly protected. We want to gather evidence and views on whether the current data protection laws are working in light of technological changes since the mid-1990s," said Lord McNally, the justice minister.
From April this year, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has had the power to impose fines on companies which deliberately or inadvertently breach data protection.
The ICO found that the data protection in the NHS is worse than in other organisations, perhaps demonstrating that the service does not have adequate business continuity strategies in place to avoid breaches and losses of data.
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