It will be instructive to see how ministers eager to stabilise a “broken Britain” manage to respond to criticism from the Equality and Human Rights Commission that government use & storage of personal data is "deeply flawed".
A new report, Protecting Information Privacy, claims current privacy laws are insufficient to stop data breaches and that the situation is likely to "get worse in the future" as demand for personal information increases and new technology is developed for collecting, storing and sharing data.
The Commission’s findings are that there are still significant barriers preventing members of the public from knowing what information is held on them by the government and its agencies or private bodies. As such it is virtually impossible to hold anyone to account for errors in the personal data held or its misuse. They add that public bodies are consistently unable to justify properly why they need someone's personal data and for what purpose.
Geraldine Van Bueren, a commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: "The state is holding increasing amounts of information about our lives without us knowing, being able to check that it's accurate or being able to challenge this effectively. This needs to change so that any need for personal information has to be clearly justified by the organisation that wants it."
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good post. They won't give you what they have as well and the Information commissioner is nothing more than a lapdog for the authorities in place, IC knows what side his bread is buttered
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