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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-data-protection-and-privacy-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2093",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-data-protection-and-privacy-regulations-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement Directive 97/66/EC of the European Parliament and the Council concerning the processing of personal data and privacy in the telecommunications sector.\nThey revoke the Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) (Direct Marketing) Regulations 1998, which have already implemented part of the Directive.\nPart II places restrictions upon the processing of data about telecommunications traffic and billing.\nPart III provides for subscribers and users to be able to prevent the identity of the caller or, in certain circumstances, the line to which a call is connected from being identified to the other party to the call.\nPart IV requires producers of directories to exclude subscribers or to omit details of subscribers' sex or address if so requested.\nPart V repeats the provisions about direct marketing contained in the 1998 Regulations.\nPart VI contains provisions about the security of telecommunications services, itemised billing and the termination of unwanted call-forwarding, and provisions overriding Parts II and III in the interests of law enforcement and national security.\nPart VII provides for compensation and enforcement.\nThe Regulations come into force on 1st March 2000, the same day as related provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998. An interim amendment to the 1998 Regulations, giving legal effect to the Direct Marketing Association’s non-statutory list of subscribers who do not want to receive direct marketing calls, comes into force on 16th August 1999.\nA regulatory impact assessment is available and can be obtained from Communications and Information Industries Directorate, Department of Trade and Industry, 151 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9SS. Copies have been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2093/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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