Background, history and context, 2. Privacy rights and the misuse of private information., 3. Interpretation of the act and key definitions, including territorial application, 4. Data protection and rights of access under the freedom of information act 2000 and the environmental information regulation 2004, 5. The principles, 6. Legitimate processing, 7. Sensitive data, 8. Overseas or cross-border transfers of personal data, 9. Notification, 10. Individual rights-general points, 11. Subject access, 12. Rights to prevent processing, 13. Rights relating to automated decisions, 14. Compensation and other individual remedies (including the assessment of claims by the commissioner), 15. Exemptions for regulation, national security, crime control and taxation, 16. Exemptions for the protection of the individual: family, employers, health, social work and schools information, 17. Exemptions for the special purposes: journalistic, literary and artistic, 18. Research, 19.Miscellaneous exemptions, 20. Enforcement and prosecution, 21. Access to criminal records and enforced subject access, 22. Electronic communications and the privacy and electronic communications (EC directive) Regulations 2003, 23. Monitoring of communications and data retention, 24. Data protection supervision of EU Co-operation in immigration, asylum, customs, policing and judicial matters, role of the european supervisor and the information commissioner, 25. The commissioner, 26. Information tribunal, 27. Data protection law in jersey, guernsey and the isle of man.