The Open Rights Group says that the government is planning measures are designed to favour business and government interests over those of the individual.
The group thinks that the government will gut the data protection rights and weaken the oversight and transparency into how personal data can be used by businesses and government agencies.
ORG’s Legal and Policy Officer, Mariano delli Santi, said the authorities are seeking to “steamroll” anything that might get in the way of government and commercial use of personal data, to avoid the sort of reversals they suffered in bringing in Palantir and Google DeepMind to the NHS without sufficient transparency and contractual safeguards.
The only thing that is stopping Boris’s boys killing the entire thing stone dead is that they cannot afford to lose EU adequacy status, which is up for review by the European Commission in 2024. Losing adequacy would mean data could not flow freely between the UK and countries in the EU, with severe adverse economic consequences likely.
