Draft data protection regulation leaked; doubtful whether it will get enacted in this form.
7 December 2011
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The first impression of this leaked text is that this version of the Regulation is more prescriptive than Directive 95/46/EC and will get up most data controllers and Governmental noses. I think the text makes far too many fundamental changes than can be reasonably done via a Regulation (which has three times as many Articles as the Directive it replaces). And this conclusion is from someone who thinks changes to the UK data protection regime are badly needed (see references). I think this
