Secure management of personal digital information is rapidly becoming a key organisational challenge for both the public and private sectors in the twenty-first century’s information age.
While headlines and news stories have been able to focus on a number of reported organisational failures to protect either personal or credit card data (or both), the reality is that there are many more organisations exposed to the sort of brand and market damage that prolonged negative headlines can have.
The Information Commissioner wants the DPA to go further than it does, and there is a growing determination for breaches of the DPA to be more immediately and directly subject to penalties than currently is the case.
Under these circumstances, everyone responsible for securing personal data within an organisation needs to have a practical understanding of their responsibilities under the DPA. Responsibility for securing personal data extends from members of the board through senior managers and functional heads to all those individuals whose job roles touch upon the security of personal data – irrespective of whether they collect, record, secure or despatch such data.
This pocket guide, written by the data protection experts at legal firm Pinsent Mason LLP, is specifically designed to provide everyone involved in the protection and security of personal data with a clear and lucid description of the contents of the DPA and what their responsibilities are in respect of securing that information.
The topics covered in this practical resource range from the UK Data Protection Act and EU regulations, the rights of individuals, security obligations, IT monitoring and interception to enforcement provisions and a good practice compliance checklist for staff.