What is the Data Protection Act?
- The Data Protection Act applies to information about living, identifiable people, such as job applicants and workers.
- Through the data protection principles, it regulates the way information about them can be collected, handled and used.
- It also gives them rights such as access to the information, and compensation if things go wrong.
- It applies to computerised information and to well-structured manual records, such as certain files about job applicants.