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Data Protection Act 1998 – gives individuals the right to know what information is held about them, and those that processes personal information must comply with eight principles, which makes sure that personal information is fairly and lawfully processed; processed for limited purposes; adequate, relevant and not excessive; accurate and up to date; not kept for longer than is necessary; processed in line with your rights; secure; not transferred to other countries without adequate protection;

The data protection act- the data protection act is legislation put in place to keep personal data confidential. It can promote anti-discriminatory practice as it can stop people finding out information about individuals that the individual wants to stay private. E.g. phone numbers and addresses. These would need to stay private so people don’t find out where you live or what is wrong with you.

Throughout the quarter of the study, Mangona will develop a series of questions into an online survey and distribute it through

Information Commissioner’s Office (2012) Introduction to The Data Protection Act 1998. [Online] Available from: http://www.ico.org.uk/~/media/documents/library/Corporate/Research_and_reports/ico_presentation_EVOC_20120528.ashx [Accessed: 11th October 2013]

THE DATA PROTECTION ACT (1998): The Data Protection Act (DPA) is a law intended to secure individual information put away on PCs or in a sorted out paper recording framework. Amid the second half of the twentieth century, organizations, associations and the administration started utilizing PCs to store data about their clients, customers and staff in databases. For instance: names, addresses, contact data, vocation history, medicinal conditions, convictions and financial record.

This legislation protects people’s data and information stored on databases. Data subjects are people whose personal data is stored, the rights given to data subjects are: right of subject access, right of correction, right to prevent distress, right to prevent direct marketing, right to prevent automatic decisions, right of compliant to the information commissioner and right to compensation.

The data protection act is designed to keep customers information from being used for other things that is not stated by the business, for instants if a customer gives his personal details i.e. credit card details and home address etc. the business must only use the data provided by the consumer just to transfer the money and not be used for any other reasons.

The Data Protection Act 1998 is a piece of legislation that controls how an individual’s personal information is used by organisations, businesses and the government. This Act ensures that HR departments only collect data from individuals is covered by what we are allowed to collect under the Act, relevant and not excessive, we must also be sure that data is not stored for longer than necessary. We must ensure that data is stored securely and confidentially; and that we are open about the reasons why we are collecting and storing the data.

Survey’s can be very helpful in gathering data, but they may be a double edged sword as this leaves a large area for self-report

Our finalized survey, created with Google Forms, had 34 questions, consisting of 6 short answer (one or two words), 16 multiple choice, 2 check-box (select all that apply), 7 long answer, and 3 ranking (frequency or rate) questions. The questions were separated into 6 sections: personal information, leadership experiences,

4. uses of personal information – ensuring that the collected personal information is used only as appropriate;

Project team Project leader: Project contributors: Amanda Benedict, M.A., survey research specialist Nancy R. Lockwood, M.A., SPHR, GPHR, manager, HR Content Program Evren Esen, manager, Survey Program Steve Williams, Ph.D., SPHR, director, Research

These surveys are carefully prepare, and in accord with the study or research that is been carried out. Specific questions regarding the study should be elaborated and worded in a clear and simple way (Berg, 2012). The respondent should feel confortable answering the questionnaire. This confortable feeling will be possible, in part, by the use of a series of key elements that will conform each and every question in the survey.

Our rational for using Surveys as our primary research method is because of the of the statistical data that is collected, which allows us to evaluate which factors are most important. In addition to this it also permits us to ask specific questions needed for our research. For instance, we thought it was of importance to know

The main body of law governing the European data protection system is the Directive 95/46/EC which provides the standard framework for EU Member States as “to protect fundamental rights and freedom of natural persons, and in particular their right to privacy with respect to processing of personal data” , therefore it applies to the United Kingdom as well. Nevertheless, its basic provisions raises very serious impacts on the right of free expression, also restricting the centre values of the right which relating to media as gathering, storing and imparting of information.