Hawktalk

Last week, the Prime Minister was quoted concerning the need to ensure Artificial Intelligence (AI)  is “introduced safely and securely with guard-rails in place”.  Strange to find that he appears to be unaware that several of these urgently needed guard-rails are being dismantled by the DPDI No.2 Bill (the “Bill”). On June 6th, I delivered a presentation to the Data Protection Forum where there was lively discussion concerning the weakening of data protection within several identified issues of the Bill.

The blog provides a summary of seven areas where the proposed Data Protection and Digital Information No. 2 Bill (“No.2 Bill”) undermines privacy issues; these should be debated by Parliament. Some area, such as ICO independence and research, are left unexplored in this Blog. 1.   Absence of Keeling Schedules It is difficult to comment on legislation that significantly modifies existing legislation if the relevant Keeling Schedules, which detail the proposed legislative changes, are unavailable (perhaps deliberately so).  The No.2 Bill

I have come to the conclusion that the new definition of personal data in the Data Protection and Digital Information No.2 Bill (“No.2 Bill”) only applies to facial recognition CCTV if the data subject is on a watch-list. If the individual is not on a watch-list, and the camera images are deleted immediately after checking the watch-list, then personal data are not processed and there are no data protection obligations (e.g. no transparency) It then follows that if the watch-list,

The press release associated with the DPDI No.2 Bill proudly states that the Bill ensures “that the new regime [is] built on the UK’s high standards for data protection and privacy”. These new “high standards”, evidently, includes adopting a definition of “personal data” that fails to meet the data protection standards established by the text of the Council of Europe (CoE) Convention No. 108, as published in January 1981. In other words, the most enduring international binding agreement on data