And what you have to do is try to comply as much as you can and gradually improve your performance over time.
NJ: The terminology is confusing, what is data and what is personal data? NM: With data protection, one of the important things is to try and grasp what the terminology is because we need to have at least a basic understanding of what the words mean. The definition of data for example is one that doesn’t really matter – you can assume that anything on a computer is data but you can’t assume that only things that are computer are data because the definition does extend to data held in manual form as well.
So ‘data’ which is anything electronic and then we’ve got the definition of ‘personal data’ which is the key term used in the Data Protection Act. And it can be important in certain circumstances, to know whether something is personal data or not because only personal data is regulated by the act.
So what is ‘personal data’? Well first of all, it’s data that relates to a living person i.e., it doesn’t apply to anyone who’s already dead and it doesn’t apply to corporations. So if you’re processing data about companies - and not necessarily about the people - then that’s not covered by the Data Protection Act, because it isn’t about a living individual.
nmiller@foxwilliams tells you something about me: it tells you my name or part of it anyway and it tells you the company that I work at. You could then go onto the Fox Williams website and look up other goodies about me and from that, you could build more of a picture. Whereas nmiller@hotmail doesn’t tell you a lot about me at all so I would say that the first one is personal data but the second one isn’t unless it’s coupled with other information that you’ve got or that you source about me later on, for example, my credit card details or consumer preferences.
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