I’m not a business owner (and not likely to be now…), but having going through the self-assessment on the ICO website, I don’t think people will be legally required register – I’ve tried answering in a few different ways as though I were a small business, and I get the reply that I don’t have register although I can choose to. Would be interested to hear from anyone who is a business own and might answer differently.

But even so, the information requirements really haven’t been thought through – how many people selling the occasional ebook know anything about the data protection act? They’re going to have to now, but it’s one more administrative burden that they really don’t need.