Disclosure may therefore be made to any person having access to the Internet, world-wide. Members of the Internet Service Providers Association should make sure that disclosures to the ISPA, as is envisaged for regulatory purposes in the Code of Practice, are shown. Description of overseas transfers As with disclosures, providing access to personal data through the Internet, potentially, means that data may be transferred to any Internet user world-wide. Whether this happens in practice will depend on a particular data user's business and the uses of personal data in that business. Transfers of personal data may therefore take place, potentially, to any country in the world.
Individuals make use of the Internet for a wide variety of purposes, too numerous to list.
In most cases, an individual's use of the Internet will incur no liability for registration. For example, use of the Internet for entertainment, for personal correspondence, for seeking information for purely personal interest, even though such use may involve the individual in processing personal data, is likely to fall within the exemption in the Act for domestic or recreational purposes. The effect of this exemption is that personal data held by an individual and concerned only with the management of his or her personal, family or household affairs, or held only for recreational purposes, are exempt from the requirement to register and from other provisions in the Act. Activities other than those mentioned in paragraph 3.1 may fall within this exemption. An example is running a newsgroup as a hobby.