A-Z Topics - Data Protection and Freedom of Information
This A to Z Guide provides brief explanations on the terminology, descriptions, procedures, and basic issues relating to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIR), Records and Information Management, and related legislation and requirements.
Suggestions as to additional entries in this A to Z Guide, and comments on the current content, should be directed to the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Office.
- Access to personal data
- Anonymous vs pseudonymous data
- Advisers of studies
- Breaches
- Business as usual requests
- Complaints
- Consent
- Data controller vs data processor
- Data Protection Impact Assessment
- Data sharing
- Data Subject Rights
- Disposal of records
- Emergency requests for personal data
- Freedom of Information Scotland Act (FOISA)
- Good practice guides for records management
- Information Security
- Lawful Basis for Processing
- Opinions about individuals
- Personal data
- Pictures and photographs
- Police requests for personal data
- Principles of GDPR
- Privacy notices
- Processing personal data
- Publication Scheme
- Purpose or reason for processing
- Recording conversations
- Records management
- Records retention schedules
- Registration/notification number (ICO)
- Research on sensitive and personal data
- Research checklist
- Retention of research data
- Rights of children
- Special Category Data
- Subject Access Request (SAR)
- Training