Data protection

The Data Protection Act 1998 sets out in eight principles how data relating to living individuals should be processed. It also requires us to notify the information commissioner about the types of personal information being processed at the School and why we are processing it.

Heads of department have no specific Data Protection Act responsibilities. However, all staff need to comply with the eight principles of data holding outlined in the Act and to raise with the Data Protection Officer any issues relating to notification of data on which they are uncertain.

For general information on data protection see the LSE website at Data protection.

The data protection officer is Rachael Maguire, ext. 6481, email r.e.maguire@lse.ac.uk.

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