Section 98: Right to information about decision-making

Data Protection Act 2018 · 2018 c. 12View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 4: Intelligence services processing — CHAPTER 3: Rights of the data subject

Where—

the controller processes personal data relating to a data subject, and
results produced by the processing are applied to the data subject,

the data subject is entitled to obtain from the controller, on request, knowledge of the reasoning underlying the processing.

Where the data subject makes a request under subsection (1), the controller must comply with the request without undue delay.

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