Data Protection: A Practical Guide to UK and EU Law, 3rd Edition

• New edition of the higly successful Data Protection
• Extensive coverage of new developments including new guidance from the Information Commissioner, the change in the definition of "personal data", new codes on employment and new examples of enforcement and cases on peripheral aspects of data protection compliance
• Clear, practical advice, with helpful examples and diagrams for the busy practitioner
• Full appendices providing all UK and EC primary and secondary legislation plus useful addresses and US Safe Harbor principles

New to this edition

• New chapter on Terminology, reproducing the definition of the terms from the Data Protection Act 1998, and setting them in the context of specific examples, to help explain them to the reader
• New chapter on Data Security includes discussion of the issues surrounding high-profile cases of the loss of personal data including HMRC losing 25 million citizens' records in October 2007, and the loss of a memory stick containing records of the UK's entire prison population by a contractor of the Home Office in August 2008

Now in its third edition, this invaluable handbook offers practical solutions to issues arising in relation to data protection law. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of all of the significant developments in the practice of data protection, and takes account of the wealth of guidance published by the Information Commissioner since the last edition.

The third edition includes new material on the changes to the Commissioner's powers and new guidance from the Commissioner's office, coverage of new cases on peripheral aspects of data protection compliance and examples of enforcement, the new code on CCTV processing, the new employment code, clarification on the definition of "personal data", the binding corporate rules on the exemption to the export data ban and the new ICT set of model contractual provisions for data exports, and the proposed action by the EU against the UK for failing to implement the Data Protection Directive appropriately. There are new chapters on terminology and data security.

Readership: Practitioners (solicitors and barristers) working in data protection law, commercial law, employment law, e-commerce and IT law, banking and finance; in-house lawyers working in corporate legal departments; data protection officers; academics and reference libraries in the UK and worldwide.