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Developing a Data Protection Policy for an Information Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Malcolm Kendall
Malcolm Kendall
Affiliation:
Malcolm Kendall is the Intellectual Property and Legislation Officer for Information Services at the University of Birmingham. His previous posts have included Senior Lecturer in Information Science at the School of Librarianship, Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Metropolitan University), Information Officer for the Academic Computing Service, and Publications & Marketing Team Leader for Information Services at the University of Birmingham. His responsibilities now include providing advice to all members of the University on copyright matters.
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Extract

A brief, but very informative, summary of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is contained in Legal Information Management in the Summer 2001 issue. This article doesn't attempt to replicate that summary but will examine some of the key decisions that need to be made in developing a policy that will enable the University of Birmingham to conform to the Act, its eight data protection principles, and the University's Data Protection policy when processing personal data and the practical procedures needed to deal with personal data processing in an information service.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , Winter 2002 , pp. 26 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2002

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References

The Data Protection Act 1998. A Brief Summary. Legal Information Management 2001, I (2), 24–27.Google Scholar
University of Birmingham Data Protection Policy http://www.ao.bham.ac.uk/dataprot/policy.htmGoogle Scholar
University of Birmingham Data Protection Guidelines. http://www.ao.bham.ac.uk/dataprot/guidelines.htmGoogle Scholar
University of Exeter Data Protection Policy. http://www.ex.ac.uk/admin/academic/datapro/policy.htmGoogle Scholar
Data Protection Registrar website. http://www.dpr.gov.uk/Google Scholar