An examination of the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act of 1998

ISBN-13: 9786200095404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 52 str.

Tolulope Ibitoye

Opis

The development of the society from the industrial age to the information age has brought about tension between privacy rights on the one hand, and free access to information/use of personal details by organisations and government on the other hand. As an individual has a right to privacy/data protection, so do organisations and government have legitimate reasons to gather and process data of private individuals. In some instances, an individual's privacy right may be conceded for organisational or governmental interests including public safety, or security reasons. Hence, this work will examine the UK Data Protection Act of 1998 with the aim of determining whether a balance between the competing interests above can be struck.

O autorze

Ibitoye, TolulopeTolulope Revelation Ibitoye, LLM: Studied International Commercial and Maritime Law at Swansea University, United Kingdom. She is presently on her Ph.d in Law programme at the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; while she teaches Law at Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Nigeria. She is a member of various law associations.