Government weakens Parliamentary and ICO supervision of the Data Protection Act
16 November 2010
2 Comments
I have concluded that proposals published by the Government in relation to “the bonfire of the quangos” (the Public Bodies Bill) and in relation to reform of Parliament (the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill) can both serve to weaken the effectiveness of the supervision of the Data Protection Act. There is a significant risk that a future Government could use powers in both Bills to reduce Parliamentary scrutiny of its own processing of personal data or threaten the Information
