🚨NEW: The UK’s new Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, introduced to the House on Monday, represents a ‘bonfire of rights’ in data reforms, say campaigners. 🧵 
The Government’s new GDPR replacement legislation, dubbed a ‘Data Oligarchs Charter’ is said to undermine the rule of law, placing ministers in charge of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), risking a ‘free flow of personal data’ between EU and UK.
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In a damning review from privacy org Open Rights Group, it’s reported that the Bill will “not only strip UK consumers of their privacy rights, they will create a jungle where big tech and rogue businesses will be free to harass everyone in the name of growth and innovation”
While sold as a means to ‘increase financial penalties for those pestering people with nuisance calls’ and minimising cookie pop-ups, within the proposal are outlines to ‘cut red tape and pointless paperwork’- rhetoric echoed by others attempting to 'seize the benefits of Brexit'
With a focus tilted heavily toward the benefits of ‘innovation’, what it means in real terms is a deregulatory approach, enabling data uses and sharing based on commercial viability, without independent oversight, circumventing citizens' data rights.
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The Bill was hastily introduced before the summer recess, and it remains to be seen what priority it will take with the incoming Prime Minister, but one candidate, Rishi Sunak, has said that data reform will be a top priority…
Also reported is that the bill, formerly known as the Data Reform Bill, will enable mass data-sharing between law enforcement, turning the UK into a ‘digital police state’, with bodies no longer having to justify why they’re accessing personal records.
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The ORG says:
“This bill will scrap important protections from prejudice and bias afforded to women, workers, patients, migrants, ethnic minorities, and vulnerable people and communities, and everyone else.
This Bill will enshrine discrimination, bias and prejudice into UK law”
“This bill will scrap important protections from prejudice and bias afforded to women, workers, patients, migrants, ethnic minorities, and vulnerable people and communities, and everyone else.
This Bill will enshrine discrimination, bias and prejudice into UK law”
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