The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidance on "Determining what is personal data". The technical guidance note explains and illustrates the ICO’s view of what is personal data for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. It is designed to help data practitioners decide whether data falls within the definition where this is not obvious. Only data falling within the definition is subject to the rules of good information practice imposed by the Act.
Issued August 21, 2007
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