Government fragments data protection policy & leaves Leveson’s data protection recommendations to rot
28 September 2015
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The transfer of responsibility for data protection policy to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is a really bad idea. It fragments responsibility for data protection policy across three Departments of State and risks reducing the protection afforded to data subjects. Important data protection recommendations from Leveson will be shelved. This blog explains why. One reason for the shift of responsibility to the DCMS (unexplained at the moment) could be because it
