@openrightsgroup The Govt answers with the usual, insipid soup of “these amendments would impact this and that”.
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@openrightsgroup The Govt answers with the usual, insipid soup of “these amendments would impact this and that”. Interestingly, though, they argue that transparency exemptions are meant to address a gap the Govt has identified in UK data protection law, which otherwise does not provide this exemption. Oh boy the rethorical acrobacies I'm hearing here XD
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@openrightsgroup Clement-Jones (LIBDEM) takes the floor again to remove clauses in the DUA BIll that would remove the powers of the Secretary of State to change primary law via Statutory Instrument—that is to say, with secondary legislation that is not menaingfully discussed by Paqrliament
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@openrightsgroup Clement-Jones points out the Lords' delegated powers regulatory committee has recommended to remove Clauses 70 and 71 that would, respectively, introduce recognised legitimate interests and a list of compatible purposes.
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@openrightsgroup For the data protection folks out there, this means the Govt would have the discretionary power to introduce new, unconditional legal bases for processing and to exempt data reuses from the compatibility test. In layman terms: the Govt gets to decide unilaterally if a data use is legal or illegal, regardless of what the law stipulates
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@openrightsgroup Clement-Jones notes how these powers were already proposed by the conservative Government, and have been represented by the new Labour Govt. They thus inherit the issues and concerns that were already raised in the past
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@openrightsgroup Clement-Jones now touches upon Clause 74, which would allow the Govt to change the definition of sensitive data, which provides additional restriction to the use of data that are more prone to discrimination and harms. Clement-Jones raises particular concerns about the possibility that health data use be legalised via these instruments
