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The Data Protection (Jersey) Law is an information privacy law in the Crown Dependency of the Bailiwick of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. The latest version is 2005, updating the previous law from 1987 to meet a European Directive.〔 It was adopted on 30 June 2004.〔 ==The law== The law implements the European Data Protection Directive of 24 October 1995, which concerns the "protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data". These include restrictions on the gathering, collection, and use of personal data, as well as forcing data collectors to let individuals know how their data has been used.〔〔See the UK Act data protection article for a complete breakdown of the Eight Principles〕 Gatherers of data are called "data controllers" and must register with the Data Protection Commissioner and pay a yearly fee.〔〔 The law also contains numerous exemptions for journalism, crime investigation, &c.〔 Other Crown dependencies like Guernsey and the Isle of Man have similar laws.〔 The 2005 law was modelled from the UK's Data Protection Act 1998.〔〔 These laws can all trace lineage back to the European Directive on Data Protection, 95/EC/46 of 1995 and the Council of Europe's European Convention 108, passed in 1981.〔〔 The 2005 overhaul of the Data Protection laws was prompted by the aforementioned Data Protection Directive. It restricted the transmission of protected data to countries outside of the European Economic Area unless they had been certified as having 'adequacy' in their own data protection laws.〔〔 Jersey is considered outside of the European Economic Area, and its 1987 Data Protection law was not adequate, so the restrictions could have harmed Jersey's financial services industry.〔 (Jersey is a major international offshore financial centre〔 and tax haven〔) In 2008 Jersey achieved 'adequacy status' under the EU rules.〔〔 Jersey's law is modified to suit this finance industry.〔 One such modification exempts Trusts from the law so that they can use personal information of Beneficiaries of the Trust without having to disclose certain details of the usage to the beneficiary. This modification was accomplished through a revision called the "Subject Access Exemptions" in 2005.〔〔 The main office of the law is the Data Protection Commissioner〔〔 (before 2005, called the Data Protection Registrar).〔 The commissioner for the first several years of the law was Emma Martins〔〔 There is also a Data Protection Tribunal.〔 In 2011 an attempt was made to unify the Commission of Guernsey with that of Jersey so that one Commissioner office would serve both Channel Islands.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Data Protection (Jersey) Law」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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