Data protection law and practice / by Rosemary Jay and Angus Hamilton.

London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2003.

2nd ed.

24735

Privacy, Right of -- Great Britain.

Data protection -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.

Confidential communications.

Information technology.

1. Introduction, bakcground and history of the legislation

2. The development of privacy from the law of confidence and the Human Rights Act 1998

3. Interpretation of the Act and key definitions, including territorial application

4. Relation with freedom of information

5. The principles

6. Legitimate processing

7. Sensitive data

8. Overseas or cross-border transfers of personal data

9. Notification

10. Individual rights - general points

11. Subject access

12. Rights to prevent processing

13. Rights relating to automated decisions

14. Compensation and other individual remedies (including the assessment of claims by the commissioner

15. Exemptions for regulation, national security, crime control and taxation

16. Exemptions for the protection of the individual family, health, social work and schools information

17. Exemptions for the special purposes: journalistic, literary and artistic

18. Research

19. Miscellaneous exemptions

20. Enforcement and prosecutions

21. Enforced subject access

22. Transitional provisions

23. The commissioner

24. Information tribunal

25. European databases, Schengen, Europol, the Customs Information System, and EURODAC, supervisory role of the European supervisor and the information commissioner

26. Electronic communications, the Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999 and Directive 2002/58

27. Data protection and the internet.

Includes index.

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lx, 836 p.