Data Protection and Compliance in Context
01 November 2006
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Data Protection and Compliance in Context provides a
comprehensive tool to guide individuals through the jungle of data
protection legislation that influence our daily business and
personal lives.
The main aim of data protection legislation is the achievement
of balance between the interests of the
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individual against the power of the information age, in order to
give individuals control over the 'data image' held about
them. But, many of the law's requirements conflict with the
natural uses of IT. Data Protection and Compliance in Context
approaches data protection from three angles; the context in which
data protection should be viewed, the content of data protection
laws and data protection from the compliance perspective.
In addition to key elements of the Data Protection Act (DPA) the
influence of other supporting pieces of legislation are explained.
It provides practical guidance on how managers and companies should
go about the business of protecting data privacy against the wider
backdrop of the DPA, human rights laws and freedom of information
legislation.
The compliance section is unique, providing data controllers
(anyone responsible for the keeping and use of personal information
on computer) with a platform for building internal compliance
strategies.
Importantly, it shows data controllers how they can realize a
compliance strategy whilst rejecting the checklist approach that
can ultimately lead the data controller into potentially costly
dead ends.
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Stewart Room |
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November 2006 |
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BCS |
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9781902505787 |