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Schools: Data Protection

Question for Department for Education

UIN 66000, tabled on 28 February 2017

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 on

9 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.