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DWP Data Protection
I may just have been having that sort of day yesterday, but twice I encountered the DWP Data Protection Office responding to simple requests for information, where they never previously would have got involved (a copy of a previous WCA, for example).
Does this mean we will be needing to complete their own subject access request form in the future?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-request-for-personal-information
Any other experience?
I may just have been having that sort of day yesterday, but twice I encountered the DWP Data Protection Office responding to simple requests for information, where they never previously would have got involved (a copy of a previous WCA, for example).
Does this mean we will be needing to complete their own subject access request form in the future?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-request-for-personal-information
Any other experience?
Don’t actually know the answer to your question definitively.
But have found SAR route easier to obtain information e.g. ESA 85’s etc, gave up alternatives, other than interlocutory applications, for reasons that are to all familiar e.g. inaction etc etc.
Dangerous road to go down. People on fixed incomes should not have to pay for their own data.
Dangerous road to go down. People on fixed incomes should not have to pay for their own data.
For the stuff above they don’t pay anything.
Dangerous road to go down. People on fixed incomes should not have to pay for their own data.
They won’t even have to pay for medical records from next May once GDPR comes in to force. Might make most peoples’ jobs a wee bit easier.
I’m not surprised we’re seeing more involvement of data protection officers in the warm up to GDPR; they will have a statutory role next year and we’ll inevitably see a lot more of them.
Dangerous road to go down. People on fixed incomes should not have to pay for their own data.
For the stuff above they don’t pay anything.
quite.
i regularly have to complete the DWP’s SAR form for clients; no charge. just as well.