A Framework to undermine the ICO’s ability to enforce the new Data Protection Bill across the public sector
28 November 2017
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The Government has just inserted clauses into the DPBill that allows the Secretary of State to issue a “Framework for Data Processing”, initially for each Government Department. This Framework has the status of statutory guidance and “will set out the manner in which government should process (personal) data”. In effect the Framework is like a statutory Code of Practice; its aim is to “improve the transparency and clarity of existing government data processing”. The Framework, according to the official explanation,
