Information rights in practice : the non-legal professional's guide / / Alan Stead

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511372203321
• Autore: Stead Alan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Facet, , 2008
• ISBN: 1-85604-993-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.410662
• Soggetti: Freedom of information - Great Britain; Freedom of information; Government information - Great Britain; Public records - Law and legislation - Great Britain; Electronic books.; Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Table of statutes and case law; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 History; 1.3 Summary; 2 Data Protection Act 1998; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Definitions; 2.3 Summary; 3 Definitions of personal data; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Deceased persons; 3.3 Substantive personal data; 3.4 Identified by secondary reference; 3.5 Third party data; 3.6 Relevant persons; 3.7 Sensitive personal data; 3.8 Summary; 4 The scope of theData Protection Act; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Credit reference agencies; 4.3 Right to stop processing; 4.4 Compensation - damage and distress4.5 Direct marketing; 4.6 Automated processing; 4.7 Rectification, blocking, erasure and destruction; 4.8 Notification; 4.9 Summary; 5 The data protection principles; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The principles; 5.3 Summary; 6 Access to personal data; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Access to the data subject's personal data; 6.3 Access to third party data; 6.4 Exemptions to section 7 requests; 6.5 Access for crime prevention, detection and taxation; 6.6 Access by health, education and social work professionals; 6.7 Regulatory exemptions; 6.8 Journalism, literature and art6.9 Research, history and statistics; 6.10 Already available to the public or by enactment; 6.11 Disclosures required by law and the courts; 6.12 Domestic and recreational purposes; 6.13 Summary; 7 Data sharing; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The guidelines; 7.3 Protocols; 7.4 Summary; 8 The Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004, SI 2004/3391; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Freedom of Information Act 2000; 8.3 The Environmental Information Regulations 2004, SI 2004/3391; 8.4 The differences between the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, SI 2004/33918.5 The section 45 code of practice; 8.6 Summary; 9 Scope of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, SI 2004/3391; 9.1 Definition of a public authority; 9.2 What is a request?; 9.3 Definition of environmental data; 9.4 Fees; 9.5 Time limits; 9.6 Dissemination of environmental information; 9.7 Consultation; 9.8 Summary; 10 Application of exemptions and exceptions; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act10.3 Exceptions under the Environmental Information Regulations; 10.4 Summary; 11 The public interest test; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 When and who applies the test?; 11.3 What is the test?; 11.4 Summary; 12 Publication schemes; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 What the scheme should contain; 12.3 Making the scheme available; 12.4 Summary; 13 Compliance, the Information Commissioner and the Information Tribunal; 13.1 Introduction; 13.2 Compliance; 13.3 The Information Commissioner; 13.4 The Information Tribunal; 13.5 Summary; 14 Disclosure logs; 14.1 Introduction
• Sommario/riassunto: Overstretched professionals in every public authority are grappling with the chalkface implications of a raft of legislation relating to information use. This book offers information about rights law, using relevant case studies to clarify and illuminate these tricky issues.