Universal Jobmatch and rights guaranteed by the Data Protection Act 1998

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Condition 1 of the First Principle of the Data Protection Act 1998 states explicitly that personal data belonging to an individual (data subject) cannot be stored or processed by another party unless consent has been given by that individual (data subject) in respect to such storage and processing, i.e., "The data subject (the person whose data is stored) has consented ("given their permission") to the processing...".

This being the case can you confirm that:

(1) British citizens have the absolute right not to consent to upload personal data (in the form of a CV, specimen letter, or similar personal information) to and for processing by Universal Jobmatch.

(2) Any British citizen choosing not to consent to submit their personal data to Universal Jobmatch (for storage and processing) cannot subsequently be sanctioned or penalised as a consequence by Jobcentre staff, Work Programme providers, or similar individuals, for exercising a legal right, granted to all British citizens in respect to their personal data, by the Data Protection Act 1998?

Yours faithfully,

Derek Brown

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Dear Derek Brown,

attached is the response to your Freedom of Information request -
Universal Jobmatch and rights guaranteed by the Data Protection Act 1998.

<<5187 reworked response pdf.pdf>>

Regards,

DWP Digitalisation Programme Support

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