House of Lords Report into Digital Economy Bill confirms extensive data sharing powers are unaccountable
22 January 2017
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A House of Lords Committee has heavily criticised the data sharing provisions in Part V of the Digital Economy Bill; it has reported that the provisions should not be supported in their current form. The Report confirms my comments in previous Blogs (see references) that the data sharing provisions (e.g. for efficient public sector service delivery, for research and statistics, for debt recovery and for fraud) are untrammelled. Namely the provisions: combined with the flexibility for Ministers to add to the
