Legal framework / Data Protection Act
Legal framework / Data Protection Act Data Protection Act The Data Protection Act (DPA) is a law designed to protect personal data stored on computers or in an organised paper filing system. The need for the Data Protection Act During the second half of the 20th century, businesses, organisations and the government began using computers to store information about their customers, clients and staff in databases. For example: names addresses contact information employment history medical conditions convictions credit history Databases are easily accessed, searched and edited. It’s also far easier to cross reference information stored in two or more databases than if the records were paper-based. The computers on which databases resided were often networked. This allowed for organisation-wide access to databases and offered an easy way to share information with other organisations. The data, information and databases section has more on searching databases . Misuse ...