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The Data Protection Act?
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inpract.20.2.101
Subject(s) - data protection act 1998 , register (sociolinguistics) , personally identifiable information , set (abstract data type) , internet privacy , business , medicine , computer science , computer security , philosophy , linguistics , programming language
THE Data Protection Act 1984 requires anyone who holds or controls collections of personal information in an electronic format to register the purposes for which they hold such information. The practical implications of the act for veterinary surgeons are set out here by the Data Protection Registrar's office.