1 Data Protection Sites

Data Protection Act Shop

The- Data Protection Act Made Easy

http://www.data-protection-act.co.uk/

Hamiltons Solicitors

Publications - A Guide to the Data Protection Act 

http://www.hamiltons-solicitors.co.uk/publications.htm

Department of Health

http://www.doh.gov.uk/dpa98/

Interactive School Resources 

Interactive quiz on basic principles of Data Protection and Personal Security

http://www.school-resources.co.uk/DataPrivacyandSecurity.htm

Defra Data Protection Act Index

Includes explanatory leaflet and request for subject access to personal data

http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/regulat/forms/dataprot/

National Archives / Public Record Office

Advice and Guidance on Records Management

http://www.pro.gov.uk/recordsmanagement/dp/DataP.html

University of Liverpool

Data Protection Policy - Guidance Notes

http://www.liv.ac.uk/dp/dp-guide.htm

Lancaster University Data Protection Project

The Data Protection Act 1998 - A Summary

http://www.dpa.lancs.ac.uk/summary.htm

National Grid for Learning

Data Protection Act and ICT use in Schools - Revised

http://safety.ngfl.gov.uk/schools/document.php3?D=d60

Loughborough University Academic Registry

Policy and Guidance information - The Data Protection Act 1998

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/ar/policy/dpact/

Palmer and Dodge LLP

UK Data Protection Act and US Companies

http://www.palmerdodge.com/dspSingleArticle.cfm?ArticleID=419

Crime Reduction Toolkits - Intelligence and Information

Establishing whether information is being fairly and lawfully processed

http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/toolkits/ui040505.htm

ICLR - The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting

The first ECJ backing for criminal conviction:- Criminal Proceedings against Lindqvist, November 2003

http://www.lawreports.co.uk/ecjnovd0.1.htm

Legal commentary at

http://www.goodwinprocter.com/publications/klosek_j_03_04.pdf  

EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Centre

Homeland Security and extra-territoriality of data regimes: EU-US Airline Passenger Data Disclosure.

http://www.epic.org/privacy/intl/passenger_data.html

For full legal analysis by Asinari & Poullet see Computer Law & Security Report (2004) 20 CLSR 98-116 and 370-376.

For the US view "the first big setback for US anti-terrorism" see New York Times, Business, 22/04/04.

2 Data Sharing Sites

Clayton, Richard - Opinion

Government Data Sharing Report is Late and Deeply Disappointing

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2002-April/018882.html

Joint Nature Conservancy Council

MapMate - Recorder Data Sharing Compliance Statement - Issue 1, Jan 2003

Document providing a compliance statement for conformance to basic requirements for data sharing, based on common Transfer Standard.. 

www.nbn.org.uk/downloads/files/JNCC_CTF_Compliance.doc

The Department for Constitutional Affairs

Data Sharing - Privacy and Data Sharing - The Way Forward.

Policy development that balances individual privacy and the need for public authorities to share personal data in the delivery of public services.

http://www.dca.gov.uk/foi/sharing/index.htm

The Department for Constitutional Affairs

Information Sharing toolkit

http://www.dca.gov.uk/foi/sharing/toolkit/lawguide.pdf

Metropolitan Police

The Crime and Disorder Act.  Special Police Notice - Exchange of Information under the Crime and Disorder Act

http://www.met.police.uk/publications/crime_disorder/cad1.htm

Crime Reduction

Information Sharing Network - Information FAQ - Questions and Answers

http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/infosharing13.htm

The Acacia Programme

A partnership of Ordnance Survey, HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Valuation Office, Royal Mail and the Local Government Information House, has been investigating the prospects for a definitive, consistent and joined-up national infrastructure of property addresses. Final reports are now with ODPM ministers. The programme objective is to make Acacia-related data electronically available across the public sector

http://www.geog.soton.ac.uk/research/agsig/news1_02/osac1_02.htm and

http://www.voa.gov.uk/publications/acacia/acacia_progress_dec03.htm 

for details, including a contact (Scott Sinclair) of the Acacia programme. (ssinclair@ordsvy.gov.uk)

Full report at

http://www.voa.gov.uk/publications/acacia/acacia_pilot_full_report.pdf

3 Freedom of Information / Data Protection Act Sites

Information Commissioner's Office

What is the Freedom of Information Act?

http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk/ 

Department for Constitutional Affairs - People's Rights

Information on a wide range of important policy areas which relate to the individual citizen and for which the DCA is responsible.

http://www.dca.gov.uk/peoplesrights.htm

Campaign for the Freedom of Information

The campaign for the Freedom of Information campaigns against unnecessary official secrecy and for a Freedom of Information Act. 

http://www.cfoi.org.uk/

HMSO Publications

Freedom of Information Act 2002

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/20000036.htm

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Home Page

http://www.dca.gov.uk/foi/index.htm

NHS Project to Implement Freedom of Information Act 

Discussion forum, Online Tools for Practitioners and links 

http://www.foi.nhs.uk/

Commercial Sites

HDIS

Freedom of Information Act Services - commercial services to help organisations implement the FOI Act

http://www.hdis.co.uk/services/foiservices.html

4 International Sites 

Data Protection

There is a list of useful links (to EU, US and international sites on data protection) at http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/links1_en.htm

Data Sharing

A list of useful links can be found at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/