Introduction

Data Protection aims to protect individuals' right to privacy with regard to the processing of their personal data by those who control such data. The legislation governing this is the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. These acts lay down rules about the safeguarding of the privacy of personal data, covering such areas as the obtaining, processing, keeping, use, disclosure, accuracy, appropriateness, retention and an individual's right to access and correct their personal data. The legislation applies to personal data held in both manual and electronic format.

WIT Data Protection Policy

Please see our Data Protection Policy document below which outlines our Data Protection responsibilites, the personal data we collect and informtion on how to make a request for access to personal records.

WIT Data Protection Policy
(PDF, 53KB)

Data Protection Commissioner

The Data Protection Commissioner, Mr. Billy Hawkes is responsible for upholding the rights of individuals as set out in the Acts, and enforcing the obligations upon data controllers. The Commissioner is appointed by Government and is independent in the exercise of his or her functions. He maintains a website which contains lots of information, publications and other resources which are very helpful to both members of the public and data controllers. The website address is: www.dataprotection.ie

21st Annual Report of the Data Protection Commissioner 2009: Annual Report