The Data Protection Act was not conceived in a vacuum. It exists to give life to Article 31 of the Constitution, which guarantees every person the right to privacy, including the right not to...
By
Immaculate Kassait
Data Commissioner
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
The next time a mobile lender asks to access your call logs or a hospital receptionist photocopies your ID card "for the records", you need to ask yourself several questions. Who said they could have that information? What are they doing with it? Can you get it back?
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