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BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection
A small charity processes limited personal data and is unsure whether it must notify the Information Commissioner. Its manager decides not to notify and later, after ignoring reminders, continues to process personal data. Which statement best reflects the manager's legal position under the Data Protection Act 1998?
Explanation
Failure to notify is a 'strict liability' offence for which the penalty is a maximum of £5,000 in
the Magistrates Court and is unlimited in the Crown Court.
it could reasonably be inferred that the body was aware of its omission, so that its continued use of personal data contravened the Act.
An HR manager, as a condition of offering employment, asks a job applicant to make a subject access request to obtain their own criminal records and hand them over. Under the Data Protection Act 1998, how should this practice be characterised?
Explanation
it is an offence for a person to ask another person to make a subject access request in order to obtain personal data about that
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