Objectives of knowledge management

personal data
should be:
1 
Fairly and lawfully processed
.
In full: ‘
Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully and, in particular, shall not be 
processed unless – at least one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met; and in the case of sensi‑
tive personal data, at least one of the conditions in Schedule 3 is also met.
’
The Information Commissioner has produced a ‘fair processing code’ which suggests 
how an organisation needs to achieve ‘fair and lawful processing’. This requires:
● 
Appointment of a 
data controller
who has defined responsibility for data protection 
within a company.
● 
Clear details in communications such as on a website or direct mail of how a ‘
data 
subject
’ can contact the data controller or a representative.
● 
Before data processing ‘the data subject has given his consent’ or the processing must 
be necessary either for a ‘contract to which the data subject is a party’ (for example as