In this article I address one aspect of the first data processing standard, the duty to process personal data  fairly and what this actually means from a practical point of view. The main action to be taken away from this article is that, as the entity responsible for the collection of personal data,

To date I have received 6 text messages from Jam-Census, these text messages were all sent during the month of September. While writing this I received another. Where did they get my number from? Why are they spamming my phone?

Did any one give the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (Statin), the memo that there is now a Data Protection Act(DPA) and that sending out promotional text messages is circumscribed under the legislation and that they are subject to the law in the same manner that