Data Protection: How To Find Out What Information Is Held About You

How can I find out what information is held about me?

Data controllers are required to register to notify the information commissioner's office about what kind of personal data they process. That is - what kind of information they have, about what people, what they obtain it for, what they use it for, to what other institutions or people they will communicate it, how long they hold it. All of that they provide, and the information commissioner's office can tell you about it or you can go straight to the data controller and simply say you want to know what information about yourself the data controller is processing and what the data controller is doing with it.