So the wife who's been a victim of violence over many years at the hands of her estranged husband, and who would like to keep her whereabouts confidential from him, is suddenly someone "with something to hide" who is being unreasonably protected by the DPA?
Of course not. However, why is it only Britain that finds it necessary to have a DPA and why was it so ill-conceived?
I bet if I rang the police and told them the DPA had been breached, I would get a bored respomse "We'll look into it,sir" and that would be that. The police can't even be bothered to turn up to burglaries half the time, so the DPA is unenforceable anyway, apart from employers who threaten and browbeat their employees into submission!
As I said earlier, the DPA creates far more problems than it solves and is a complete nonsense. Like most of the laws in the UK and USA, only people with real money can afford to take someone to court and enforce the law, the solicitors, barristers and judges in their stupid fancy dress get fat and the ordinary "John Doe" has to suffer injustice.
Time for change is well overdue.