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Data Protection Committee: Evidence and Papers
Catalogue reference: HO 261
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HO 261
Evidence submitted to the Data Protection (Lindop) Committee, working papers of the committee, drafts. and a copy of the report. The committee was set up in 1976 to advise the government on means to safeguard the privacy of computer data in the...
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HO 261
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- Data Protection Committee: Evidence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1975-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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Evidence submitted to the Data Protection (Lindop) Committee, working papers of the committee, drafts. and a copy of the report. The committee was set up in 1976 to advise the government on means to safeguard the privacy of computer data in the public and private sectors.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Data Protection Committee, 1976-1978
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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471 files and volumes
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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- Topics
- Computing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Committee on Data Protection was appointed by the Home Secretary on 22 July 1976 to advise the Government on the form of permanent control machinery envisaged in the White Paper on Computers and Privacy (Cmnd. 6353, 1975) to ensure that all existing and future computer systems holding personal information, in both the private and public sectors, were operated with appropriate safeguards for privacy; and to consider and refine the objectives to be incorporated in legislation establishing permanent safeguards.
The Chairman of the Committee was Sir Norman Lindop, Director of Hatfield Polytechnic. The Committee reported on 27 July 1978, but the publication of the report (Cmnd. 7341) was delayed until December 1978 by a printing dispute.
Some of the Committee's recommendations were implemented in the Data Protection Act 1984.
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