Legal and Policy Officer @OpenRightsGroup
"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg." - cit.
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Jul 19, 2022 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
1) Yesterday, the UK Govt presented their plans to scrap data protection from UK laws, the “Data Protection and Digital Information Bill”.
At @OpenRightsGroup we had low expectations, but good lord. This is bad beyond reckoning.
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openrightsgroup.org/press-releases…2) First things first, you will hear “Secretary of State” often. In the UK “Data Protection Bill”, the Secretary of State rules by decrees like an absolute monarch. There is very little that the Secretary cannot derogate, amend or bend with secondary legislation…
We at @OpenRightsGroup made an analysis on what to expect today. Thread below
2) This Govt want the UK digital sector to be as dirty and dishonest as them, and they wrote a law for no one but the law-breakers. Everyone else will have less rights, less choices, and less access to recourse if something goes wrong. openrightsgroup.org/publications/d…
Jun 17, 2022 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
1) This morning, the UK Govt have published their plans to gut the UK GDPR.
My first take in the blog below, but the Govt response could be summarised as: The majority of respondents disagreed, but… we will do it anyway.
2) This is what you get when you carry out rigged consultation processes, as the DCMS were taking care of ignoring the critical voices with arbitrary cherry-picking and a smokescreen of wishful thinking. What could possibly go wrong? techmonitor.ai/policy/privacy…
Sep 10, 2021 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
1) The UK Government published their plans to water down GDPR. It is bad, incredibly bad. My first reaction on @OpenRightsGroup blog, but if you scratch under the surface it gets even worse. You won't believe how bad it is.
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2) First things first, Government purports the new framework as intended to ‘maintain high data protection standards’. Except that, in their consultation they NEVER, EVER touch upon or seek views on how to strengthen protection for individuals.
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