Her last intervention is unfortunate, because it is clear, for whoever is in the knows, that the ICO is siding with cookie paywalls, as the ICO generally tend to side with commercial interests regardless of their merit.

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Baroness Jones (LAB) also opposes changes that would extend Article 22 to predominantly automated decisions. She continues by vaguely pushing back against the amendments being presented, also in regard to children

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Baroness Jones (LAB) also defends Govt plans to introduce a power for the Secretary of State to exempt ADM systems from ADM provisions. Her rationale, that these determination would be reviewed by Parliament, forgets to mentions that the UK Parliament has not rejected a single Statutory Intrument since the mid 1970s. In other words, this is not a safeguard, and Baroness Jones ought to know about it

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Baroness Jones (LAB) keeps her vague but diligent rebuttal of every amendment that was presented. Taking a step away from the debate, the Labour Govt position on this issue looks very, very odd: they are obviously uncomfortable with defending or even acknowledging that they are proposing to remove Article 22 rights in most circumstances. These amendments also exposed what could be called hypocristy: as the Labour Govt has presented these changes as “clarifications” about the meaning of the law, it is now rather odd to see Maggie Jones (LAB) rejecting every single amendment that would clarify the meaning of the law but without restricting such right instead.

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Clement-Jones (LIBDEM) takes the floor, points out that concerns obviously remain after the Labour Govt response delivered by Baroness Jones. Clearly, he says, we need to discuss this further before the debate moves to Report Stage, as the debate was unsatisfactory

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Lord Clement-Jones (LIBDEM) also speaks out in support of amendments that would extend the scope of Article 22 to “predominantly automated decisions”, rejects remarks against it by Lord Camrose (CON)

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Clement-Jones now introduces an amendment that would remove Clause 81. This is a provision the Labour Govt has presented that would remove the need to log access to a police database by the police. Clement-Jones puts these provisions in relation to Schedules 4 and 5, that remove safeguards over the use of data for law enforcement, national security and other public security purposes

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The combined effect of these provisions, Clement-Jones says, is that it would allow the unaccountable use of data by the police. Instead, the public needs more, not less transparency over police use of data

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Clement-Jones also mentions a police review that found police officers had abused their powers to access police data in the Sara Everard case. This shows the need of more transparency, and the danger of reducing safeguards against abuse of power by police forces when accessing personal data. For context: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/police-to-get-more-data-powers-despite-sarah-everard-records-breach/

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Clement-Jones also criticises Clause 87, that would allow the Govt to introduce new exemptions to data protection for law enforcement purposes for national security. He points out this power is incredibly dangerous for the survival of the UK adequacy decision

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Clement-Jones also raises the issue of Police's reliance on hyperscale cloud providers, and the impact of this on UK technological sovereignty. He summarises issues that have been thoroughly developed by Sebastian Klovig Skelton for Computer Weekly, and which I have been commenting upon quite regularly. See for instance https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366615434/Police-cloud-project-raises-data-protection-concerns-despite-legal-reforms