Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Background,history and context
Chapter 2. Privacy rights and the misuse of private information
Chapter 3. Interpretation of the act and key definitions, including territorial application
Chapter 4. Data protection and rights of access under the freedom of information act 2000 and the environmental information regulations 2004
Chapter 5. The principles
Chapter 6. Legitimate processing
Chapter 7. Sensitive data
Chapter 8. Overseas or cross-border transfers of personal data
Chapter 9. Notification
Chapter 10. Individual rights-general points
Chapter 11. Subject access
Chapter 12. Rights to prevent processing
Chapter 13. Rights relating to automated decisions
Chapter 14. Compensation and other individual remedies
Chapter 15. Exemptions for regulation, national security, crime control and taxation
Chapter 16. Exemptions for the protection of the individual family, health, social work, and schools information
Chapter 17. Exemptions for special purposes: journalistic, literary and artistic
Chapter 18. Research
Chapter 19. Miscellaneous exemptions
Chapter 20. Enforcement and prosecution
Chapter 21. Access to criminal records and enforced subject access
Chapter 22. Electronic communications and the privacy and Electronic communications regulations 2003
Chapter 23. Monitoring of communications and data retention
Chapter 24. Data protection supervision of EU co-operation in immigration,asylum,customs,policing and judicial matters,role of the European supervisor and the information commissioner
Chapter 25. The Commissioner
Chapter 26. Information tribunal
Chapter 27. Data protection law in jersey,Guernsey and the isle of man