Digital Economy Bill data sharing provisions undermine Parliamentary scrutiny and create privacy risks
28 November 2016
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As promised in last Friday’s blog, an explanation why the data sharing provisions in Part V of the Digital Economy Bill (the “Bill”) should not be supported. The Bill completes its Commons stages today with hardly any detailed scrutiny of its data sharing provisions. In privacy terms, this blog shows that the data sharing proposals demonstrate: (a) a lack of understanding of how the Data Protection Act (DPA) works; (b) a failure to explain how the interference inherent in data sharing
