The data protection laws allow individuals certain rights in relation to their personal data. One such right is to access their personal information – this is also known as a subject access request (SAR). In a recent case a housing developer has been prosecution for a failure to respond to a subject access request as required by the legislation. This is after they ignored an enforcement notice from the data watchdog in the UK, the Information Commissioner Office (ICO), which ordered them to comply with the law. The company pleaded guilty and to a charge of failing to comply with an enforcement notice. It was fined £300, with a £30 victim surcharge, and was ordered to pay £1,133.75 towards prosecution costs. As you may be aware, the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 came into force on 25 May 2018. The new law changed some of the rules around SAR’s. Main points include:
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