New Data Protection Bill defines “personal data” below DPA1984 threshold
4 August 2022
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This is the first in a series of blogs on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the “Bill”) published just before the Parliamentary recess. This blog explains: (a) how the Bill’s new definition of “personal data” works; (b) why the definition is very problematic for data subjects; and (c) how, after nearly four decades of data protection law in the UK, the Government is promoting a definition of personal data that is demonstrably weaker than that in the DPA1984.
