Are dead people (recently dead) protected by the Data Protection Act?

Answer 1

Dead people are not a legal entity. Therefore they can not be protected by that law. But that does not mean you can 'claim' the data. You will have to go to court to get it.

Answer 2

There are lots of things that cannot be accessed to to the "Data Protection Act", and as an amateur geneologist I have come up against this excuse on countless occasions. Hospital Records and the like are closed to access for 100 years, and School Records are similiarly protected for something like 75 years. Military Records of a relative who died during WW2 will only usually be produced to an official next of kin who can prove their right to the information they are after. Lots of things will not be produced, unless you have a very good reason, and if the authorities concerned are not sure on where the law stands they will wheel out the "Data Protection Act" as a catch-all excuse and hope that you will go away. If you are the "next of kin" then you can probably appeal such a ruling, but in most cases, the recently dead (and the not so recent dead) are pretty well protected indeed.

Answer 3

DATA PROTECTION IS ALL ABOUT PERSONAL DATA . eg processing, storage, subject access etc.
personal data is defined in s1[1] as
personal data” means data which relate to a living individual who can be identified—
so if they are dead they are not living and therefore the data is not personal data,
the data protection act does not protect and the right of access does not apply.
however an organisation cannot use the act as the reason to refuse access altho they may just refuse

Answer 4

Only in Thailand

Answer 5

after seven years

Answer 6

No...after you are dead your privacy die too....