The Information Commissioner - who oversees compliance with data protection legislation in the UK - has launched a "crackdown" on solicitors that fail to register as data controllers. A statement from the Information Commissioner's Office claims that a third of solicitors are "likely to be in breach".
The Data Protection Act 1998 applies to anyone processing personal data on computers and certain manual filing systems. These "data controllers" are required to notify the Information Commissioner of their processing unless they are exempt, but the exemptions are unlikely to apply to many law firms.
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