Data Protection

• New edition of the higly successful Data Protection
• Extensive coverage of new developments including new guidance from the Information Commissioner, the change in the definition of "personal data", new codes on employment and new examples of enforcement and cases on peripheral aspects of data protection compliance
• Clear, practical advice, with helpful examples and diagrams for the busy practitioner
• Full appendices providing all UK and EC primary and secondary legislation plus useful addresses and US Safe Harbor principles

New to this edition

• New chapter on Terminology, reproducing the definition of the terms from the Data Protection Act 1998, and setting them in the context of specific examples, to help explain them to the reader
• New chapter on Data Security includes discussion of the issues surrounding high-profile cases of the loss of personal data including HMRC losing 25 million citizens' records in October 2007, and the loss of a memory stick containing records of the UK's entire prison population by a contractor of the Home Office in August 2008

Readership: Practitioners (solicitors and barristers) working in data protection law, commercial law, employment law, e-commerce and IT law, banking and finance; in-house lawyers working in corporate legal departments; data protection officers; academics and reference libraries in the UK and worldwide.

Peter Carey, Senior Consultant with PDP, and Consultant with Charles Russell, London

Review(s) from previous edition

"Peter Carey is not afraid to deal with the complexity of real life scenarios...Another excellent section is that on employment-related data...Marketing is also dealt with in a very useful manner...His section on privacy and websites is also extremely useful...Carey makes his book easy to understand without requiring his non-EU based readers to do any additional research...Carey also has a gift for knowing what information is required at what time...this book was a rare academic pleasure to read. - CTLR

"The book is a useful handbook of UK data protection law, and would be of particular use to those with no or little experience of this aspect of law. It clearly sets out all the relevant law, and discusses the statutory provisions. It is concisely and practically written and includes useful examples of situations which arise in practice. ... ideal for many of the businesses who need to come to grips with data protection law as a matter of compliance. It is written in an easy to follow manner with sufficient cross-referencing and details of sources of further information for the intelligent non-lawyer to obtain a basic understanding of data protection law" - CTLR Vol. 7, Issue 7, Oct. 2001

"a very useful work for those involved in data protection and could be read by both lawyers and non-lawyers alike with ease. " - Privacy Laws & Business UK Newsletter

"...the new edition is a useful updating of the law and a work that both lawyers and a more general business readership will find a very useful addition to their shelves" - Howard Johnson, Bangor Law School, Communications Law 14.4

1: HISTORY OF DATA PROTECTION AND INTRODUCTION TO THE LEGISLATION
2: TERMINOLOGY
3: NOTIFICATION
4: DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES
5: FAIR, LAWFUL AND LEGITIMATE PROCESSING
6: SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA
7: DATA SECURITY
8: DATA EXPORTS
9: THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS
10: EXEMPTIONS
11: ENFORCEMENT
12: CRIMINAL OFFENCES
13: OUTSOURCING PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING
14: ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
15: CCTV
Appendix 1: Directive 95/46/EC: the Data Protection Directive
Appendix 2: Data Protection Act 1998
Appendix 3: Statutory Instruments
Appendix 4: Directive 2002/58/EC on Privacy and Electronic Communications
Appendix 5: The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003 No. 2426)
Appendix 6: US Safe Harbor Principles
Appendix 7: European Data Protection Authorities
Appendix 8: Addresses and Websites