Where are these Rights for Individuals?
The Act gives the following rights to people where the Council holds personal information about them. They have:
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Subject access rights to personal data, held about them by the Council.
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A right to prevent processing of personal information if it is causing or is likely to cause substantial damage or distress
to that individual (the "data subject")
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A right related to automatic decision making. So if the Council uses technology
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to reach a decision which is based solely on processing by some automatic means, say grants to individual applicants using
a specially designed computer programme, then the data subject can give written notice that he / she does not want to be subject
to purely automatic decision making procedures where those procedures might have some significant impact on that person
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A right to have inaccurate personal information corrected or erased
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A right to take action for compensation for damage
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