The Information Commissioner's Office is making inquiries into the alleged breach of the Data Protection Act.
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The Data Protection Act is there to protect people from land-grabs such as this.
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It said the data sent went "over and above" what was required, breaching the Data Protection Act 1998.
It also said the collecting of the details violated the Data Protection Act.
The hospital has not named the agency involved, citing the Data Protection Act.
The government's information commissioner's office said the secret recording of a conversation was potentially a breach of the Data Protection Act.
Britain, for instance, recently passed the UK Data Protection Act, which fines companies for losing personal data related to its customers or employees.
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We are currently looking at options as to how to take this forward with due reference to Data Protection Act and human rights legislation.
The NMPH is now working hard to try and formalise a way of operating that will not fall foul of the Data Protection Act.
But there might be a bit more of a headache in the UK. On my reading, Path is in breach of the Data Protection Act.
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The practice has continued because lenders have had a grace period from the provision within the Data Protection Act, which bans sharing of such personal data.
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MI5, for instance, has not even bothered to register under the Data Protection Act, which gives people the right to see information about themselves held on computers.
Earlier this year, Newyddion Arlein revealed that five people had been dismissed by the DVLA in Wales in the past three years for breaches of the Data Protection Act.
Cases like this make it clear that the sanctions provided for by the Federal Data Protection Act are totally inadequate for the punishment of such serious breaches of data protection.
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The Information Commissioner - who overseas the implementation of the Data Protection Act - said he would get tough with any firms that do not adjust to the new rules.
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Mr Murphy, councillor for Freebridge Lynn, said he had referred the council to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over the recorded call, alleging "possible multiple breaches" of the Data Protection Act.
For Ms Gallagher at Demos beefing up the power of the Information Commissioner to enforce the Data Protection Act would help redress some of the imbalance between the data companies hold about us.
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While acknowledging that the case was not brought under the Data Protection Act - the pair could face possible jail terms - the information commissioner said it does have "parallels" with his own findings.
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The Home Office told BBC News Online that the Data Protection Act and the European Court of Human Rights considerations had to be fully taken into account before DNA profile information could be released overseas.
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"It is deeply worrying that after a number of major data losses and the publication of two government reports on high profile breaches of the Data Protection Act, more personal information has been reported lost, " he said.
New legislation, such as the Data Protection Act and the Human Rights Act, is intended to give individuals more control over how their personal information is used now that it can so easily be zapped from computer to computer.
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Cohen, who represented the company targeted on MoneySavingExpert, says more people are realizing that while online trolls can argue for the human right to privacy and (in Britain) call on the Data Protection Act to protect their identities, plaintiffs can call on the High Court to unmask them.
Although it said that there was some evidence to warrant further investigation of offences under the Data Protection Act, the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and the Communications Act 2003, it added that this would not take place as any potential prosecution would not be in the public interest.
For example, the same notifications sent to the media as required under the HITECH Act (a personal information protection act for healthcare data) may or may not be required by state regulations, depending on the states and the specifics of your incident.
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