Schools: Data Protection

(asked on 28th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what restrictions are placed on organisations which sell access to school websites and teachers' email addresses.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 9th March 2017

All organisations that sell access to data (of any sort) are governed by the Data Protection Act 1998, which regulates how organisations, businesses or the Government uses personal information. The Department is not able to apply any further restrictions.

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