Short guide to the Information Privacy Principles

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The 10 Information Privacy Principles (IPPs) are contained in Schedule 1 to the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014. This is a short summary of the IPPs and is intended to provide a high-level guide only.

Please also refer to the full text of the IPPs and the Guidelines to the IPPs for more detailed privacy analysis.

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