Health and Social Work public bodies do not need to rely on data subject consent for the processing of personal data
21 November 2017
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The Data Protection Bill (“DPBill”) based on the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) will, hopefully, call time on what always has been a problem. Controllers who believe that the delivery of health, education and social work public sector services have to rely on “data subject consent” for the processing of personal data related to those services. When the DPBill is enacted, any reliance on consent creates a problem because when a data subject withdraws consent, there is an expectation that
