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Article: Data Protection: Six Steps For Your Company to Conform to the Data Protection Act.( Data Protection Act)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- October 20, 2005
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Many companies take on data protection with a degree of reluctance that the subject does not merit: just follow the steps set out below and you will identify the chief problems and get your business to measure up to all requirements of the Data Protection Act.
Step 1: Analyse your company's practice of processing and transmitting customer and staff data
Processing customer and staff data and disclosing them to a third party is permissible only under clearly (and narrowly) defined preconditions; if these are not met, you need to obtain the consent of the data subjects. Analyse which data are processed in your enterprise, what is the purpose of such ...