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EU-UK: DATA PROTECTION ACT: Data protection: Commission requests UK to strengthen powers of national data protection authority, as required by EU law

01 June 2010

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EU-UK: DATA PROTECTION ACT: Data protection: Commission requests UK to strengthen powers of national data protection authority, as required by EU law (pdf). A welcome move but why is the Commission not questioning Section 7.2. This concerns the right to be informed if personal data is being processed/transferred and says that: "A data controller is not obliged to supply any information under subsection (1) unless he has received - a request in writing". This makes the "right to be informed" meaningless.

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