Government propose to reduce DP accountability requirements to OECD standards
28 October 2021
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The Government intend to change the accountability arrangements in the UK_GDPR in such a way that it will become harder to hold controllers to account. In summary, Chapter 2 of the DCMS Consultation document (“Data: a new direction”) makes two main proposals in relation to accountability: to reduce or remove the requirement to undertake DPIAs (A.35 and A.36); to reduce or remove the requirement to have a Data Protection Officer (A.37-A.39); to remove the need to create a register of
