Information Commissioner should enforce Article 8 privacy rights
20 April 2010
1 Comment
For some time, I have been advocating the creation of an explicit and unequivocal link between the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the Human Rights Act (HRA). I now think that this link already exists and that the Information Commissioner (ICO) should take up cases which involve the unlawful use or retention of personal data, where "lawfulness" is assessed in the context of compliance or non-compliance with the obligation to show respect for private and family life (Article 8(1) of the
