The GDPR supposedly prevents organisations from charging for a subject access inquiry. In other words if they have information about you they have to hand it over and not charge you an arm and a leg to look at it. This means that inaccurate information can be corrected. For example if someone is refused a loan because they are listed as being bankrupt they can challenge the information. (based on a real case)
In fact the weasel words of the Data Protection Act are as follows
Requests for information are usually free. However, organisations can charge an administrative cost in some circumstances, for example if:
- you’re asking for a large amount of information
- your request will take a lot of time and effort to process
For example the police response to a subject access inquiry in the past was that they held data under 16 different headings and they could charge ten pounds for each heading. Most people would choose not to have the information!
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