Data Protection: applying the Principles to the surveillance of a demonstration
30 October 2009
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Does it breach the Data Protection Act to process personal data about all demonstrators in order to identify those demonstrators who are also “domestic extremists”? To answer this question, it is instructive to apply the Data Protection Principles to the photographing of a demonstration by the police. The relevant explanation of the term “domestic extremism” is found on the website of National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit (NETCU is the Unit that is at the centre of the controversy (http://www.netcu.org.uk/de/default.jsp). Its
