The data protection act, 1998

The 'right privacy' is a right we all expect personal details such as our age, medical records, personal family details, political and religious beliefs to be freely available to everybody. with the growth of the information and communication technology, large database are able to hold huge quantities of the information are and global networks and able to share and distribute thus information around the world in seconds . To protect people from there personal information, the data protection act was founded. The first act was made law in 1984 but it was replaced  by a new act in 1998 to include the European union law. 

if any person, organisation, company or business wishes to hold personal information about the people, they must register with the office of the information commissioner.