Privacy and data protection CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR LAW

CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR LAW

Privacy and data protection

A lot of people and organisations, ranging from shops and credit card companies to government agencies, have personal data ( = details) about us in their files and on their computers. Many people are worried that this data could be used against them or could 'fall into the wrong hands'. In Britain, the Data Protection Act sets out rules about how this data is processed and used by data controllers (= the people who hold details about us). The following sentences summarise the main points of the Data Protection Act. However, each sentence contains between 1 and 4 spelling mistakes or wrong words. Identify and correct each one. Surprisingly, there are no specific privacy laws in Britain, and people who feel they have been subjected to unwanted intrusion to their privacy often turn to the European Convention of Human Rights, and specifically Article 8, which concerns the right to respect for an individual's private life. In other cases, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights contains a similar article (Article 12) which could be referred to. Infringements of privacy in Britain are sometimes referred to the European Court of Human Rights. 1 Data controllers should compliy with the rules of good information handling practise, known as the data protection principals. 2 Personal data should be proccesed fairly and lawfully, should be acurrate and relavant, and should be subject to appropriate secureity. 3 A person has the right to find out what infermation is held about them on computer and in some paper records. This is called the right of supject acess. 4 A person has the right to find out what credit agencys report about them and to be able to correct any mistakes in these reports. 5 A person has the right to prevent data being procesed if they think it is likely to cause them or anyone else unjustifried substantial damaging or substantial destress. 6 A person has the right to require the data controller not to use their personal detales to market them with products, services or ideals. 7 A person has the right to know if a computer is used to process information about them in order to take a decisive that will effect them, and in some cases can present decisions being made about them which are based solely on automatic processing. 8 A person has the right to have unaccurate information about them ammended or destroyed. 9 A person who has suffered damage or distress as a result of a data controller failing to comply with the Data protection Act has the right to clam condensation from the data controller. 10 A person can issue court preceedings against a data controller if a sollution to any of the above points cannot be met by dealing directly with the data controller.

 

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