Data Protection: Who gets the Audit Commission’s privacy invasive powers?
16 August 2010
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The press coverage of last Friday’s unexpected announcement that the Audit Commission is to be abolished failed to mention a key data protection issue: who is going to inherit its data matching mantle? The answer is important because the Commission’s extensive, privacy-invasive, data matching powers were enacted by the last surveillance-addicted Government and extend well beyond a narrow benefit fraud remit. Data matching involves comparing sets of personal data, such as the payroll or benefits records of a body, against
