No. There was a requirement to register as a controller or processor with the DPC under the Data Protection Acts 1988-2003 . No such obligation exists under the GDPR or the Data Protection Act 2018.
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Any business or sole trader who processes personal information must register with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the Data Protection Act 2018 and failure to register is a criminal offence.
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Every organisation or sole trader who processes personal information needs to pay a data protection fee to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), unless they are exempt .
Read moreWho is exempt from data protection?
The main examples of this are: The taxman or police do not have to disclose information held or processed to prevent crime or taxation fraud. Criminals cannot see their police files. Tax or VAT investigators do not have to show people their files.
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