Message to data subjects: national security purpose is free of constraints such as lawful or compatible processing
6 June 2016
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Today, the Government will whip its controversial Investigatory Powers Bill (IP Bill) through its Parliamentary Report stage; the Bill, in part, provides powers that permit the national security agencies to amass bulk personal datasets where the majority of personal data in a bulk dataset relates to data subjects who are not of interest to these agencies. The Government has so far ignored the data protection recommendations of the draft IP Bill Committee which asked for important data protection considerations to
