{"id":5644,"date":"2022-02-04T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:36:17","slug":"difference-between-freedom-of-information-request-and-subject-access-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/5644","title":{"rendered":"Difference between Freedom of Information request and  &#8216;Subject Access Request"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can make a Freedom of Information request in general terms of a &#8216;public authority&#8217;. These are free. BUT to find out about you personally, you make a &#8216;Subject Access Request&#8217; &#8230;. This is under the Data Protection Act 1988\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/data-protection\/find-out-what-data-an-organisation-has-about-you?fbclid=IwAR2fQoTDdsohbxEgU7gFYhwUVucptCOp1aLnYuBfP_oz-IpT90vSrjlJlvU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/&#8230;\/find-out-what-data-an-organisation&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0and usually cost \u00a310 a throw. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can make a Freedom of Information request in general terms of a &#8216;public authority&#8217;. These are free. BUT to find out about you personally, you make a &#8216;Subject Access Request&#8217; &#8230;. This is under the Data Protection Act 1988\u00a0https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/&#8230;\/find-out-what-data-an-organisation&#8230;\u00a0and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/5644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[793,1078,1079,1077],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-data","tag-foi","tag-protection","tag-sar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5645,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/5645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}