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Employers’ access to ‘subject access’ records will become a criminal offence from December 2014

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Employers’ access to ‘subject access’ records will become a criminal offence from December 2014

We’ve learnt today that the Ministry of Justice are planning to bring section 56 of the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998 into force on the 1^st December 2014.

There’s more information about this in an update on our Information Hub.

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