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If, on April 1st,  I reported that a cabal of controllers could club together and draft a Code of Practice that establishes their legal compliance with the UK’s data protection regime, you would probably say that this was too far-fetched to be true. Yet this is the procedure that has been put in place by our the Government for all law enforcement processing of personal data. The grim detail can be found in Clause 68A of the Data Protection and

Late on Good Friday (a very good time to bury “bad” news), the Government quietly tabled an amendment to the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill  (DPDI Bill) which extends the definition of personal data to include bequests and comments, made by a deceased, in his or her will.  The ICO has welcomed this amendment as a positive change to the law. Although the amendment makes a somewhat quirky change to the Wills Act 1837,  an impeccable sauce has indicated

Speakers at the Data Protection Forum in early March reinforced my reasoning that the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill  (“DPDI Bill”) should be used as a vehicle to implement the EU’s AI Act.  [Obviously my Petition which states this should also be supported: so please sign it! – see references]. One speaker, at the end of her presentation, made several personal comments about the risks associated with the fragmentary, “wait and see” approach of the UK Government towards AI

I am asking readers to sign my Petition on the Parliamentary web-site (see end of this blog); most of the blog's text explains why you should sign. In summary, the Petition states that the Government would be negligent if it failed to draft clauses for the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill  (“DPDI Bill”) to protect data subjects from the harmful impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI). I have suggested that these AI clauses should be aligned with the EU Data/IA

Text Updated 6 March 2024 Most people will agree that the promised “Brexit benefits” have yet to manifest themselves in physical form.  This is especially the case with the Data Protection and Digital Information (“DPDI”) Bill which for three years been touted by Ministers as the pre-eminent Brexit Bonus for Britain. The Bill, it is claimed, combines a high level of data protection for data subjects with easier compliance for controllers and the wider exploitation of personal data:- such data