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The Second Data Protection Principle

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"Personal data shall be obtained only for one or more specified and lawful purposes and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes."

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This requirement aims to ensure that organisations are open about their reasons for obtaining personal data and that what they do with the information is in line with the individual's expectations.

The Act does not prohibit the use of information obtained for one purpose being used for another, but limits the use to that which is not "incompatible" with the original purpose, i.e. a reasonably adjacent purpose.

If you intend to disclose information for a purpose that was not originally contemplated, or included in your register entry or privacy notice, you must consider whether this processing will still be fair and comply with the first data protection principle.

If the use or disclosure of the information would be unfair because it is outside what the individual would reasonably expect or has an unjustified damaging effect on the person, then you should regard the disclosure as being incompatible with the purpose you obtained the information for.

It is therefore important to remember:

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