Day: April 10, 2013

Successive UK Governments have seen data protection more as a cost overhead to be minimised rather than as an essential protection for the individual in an electronic age. This view started with Mrs Thatcher’s first Government and has endured for over three decades. During the 1970s, there were a number of White Papers and Reports starting with the Younger Report on Privacy (in 1972) and ending with the Lindop’s Report on Data Protection (December 1978). So when Mrs Thatcher came