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The Data Protection Act: employee rights, employer obligations
Author(s) -
Lloyd Reggie
Publication year - 2002
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.24.5.288
Subject(s) - data protection act 1998 , business , action (physics) , law , internet privacy , public relations , political science , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics
THE Data Protection Act 1998 gives employees the right to see and have some control over the information that their employers hold about them. In this article, Reggie Lloyd describes what action employees are entitled to take with regard to such data and the occasions when an employer is entitled to refuse access.