Data Protection Law Flashcards
1
Q
Personal data
A
data on specific individual from which they can be identified
2
Q
Data controller
A
determines how and why data is processed
3
Q
Data processer
A
processed data on behalf of data controller
4
Q
The Data Protection Act is underpinned by six data protection principles
A
- Lawfulness, fairness and transparency
- Purpose limitation
- Data Minimisation
- Accuracy
- Storage limitation
- Integrity and confidentiality
5
Q
The right of data subjects:
A
- To be informed
- Access
- Rectification
- To erasure/to be forgotten
- To restrict processing
- To data portability
- To object
- Automated decision making and profiling
6
Q
Data that is exempt from the act
A
- processing of employee data by employers
- academic institutions processing data for academic purposes
- scientific and historic research organisations
