Computerised systems enable more data to be kept and accessed. The technology transcends company and community boundaries. This itself increases the need for accuracy, security and confidentiality. More and more data is then added to the employee record and related records as the employee's length of service increases. The record is updated from time to time.
Employees provide confidential information in support of their job relationship with the employer.
Defines principles which all data users are obliged to observe. Employers must register the personal data they keep and the legitimate uses to which it will be put. Data subjects have rights of access to their data and to correct or have it erased if wrong. There is also redress if damage results from inaccuracy or loss of the personal data. Excluded from the scope of the Act is data used solely for payroll purposes only.