Sarah,
every company whether a parent, subsidiary or associate is a separate legal identity. As such each company if required to do so has to notify the Information Commissioner that they are processing personal data.
A lot of companies don't realise this. I don't know if this is a lack of knowledge re company law on behalf of the Data Protection Officer, or the DPO does not realise what other companies come within the group
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Hello All
Does anyone know if companies wholly owned and run by larger organisations are seen as seperate companies for the purposes of the Data Protection Act? I'm thinking of those set up particularly to run a specific area of the organisations operation (eg Trading) as the tax breaks are better.
I'd be grateful for any advice
Sarah Henning
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