Put privacy first! Parliamentary report calls for national security agencies to apply Data Protection Principles
11 February 2016
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For a long time, I have been arguing that the national security agencies should apply the data protection principles to their processing of personal data subject, if necessary, to exemptions from subject access and fair processing requirements. Today’s report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (DIP) supports that position. In summary, if the criminal intelligence processed by the police relating to serious crime can be subject to most data protection requirements without mishap (since the 1984 Act),
