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Schedule of retained EU Law that will be revoked or sunset by 31 Dec 2023 gov.uk/government/pub + dashboard gov.uk/government/pub Could be other Tory skulduggery buried in this list, of course, but at least it does not include the EIRs, RPSI regs, nor INSPIRE regs. #opendata

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Although

has treated that tweet as a valid #FOI request, I'm not sure it was obliged to – neither "Sir Peter Ridell" nor "PeterRidellMP" is a real name. (There is a genuine Sir Peter Riddell, who is a member of the Privy Council but not an MP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rid.)

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Transgender #selfid: why it's a human right thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-02- #transrights Excellent article by

@JCE_IC

, from 2019 when he was NZ Privacy Commissioner. Unfortunately, GC headbangers have taken exception now Edwards is UK Information Commissioner.

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Replying to @PeterRidellMP

@PeterRidellMP This request was handled under the FOIA and the response from our Information Access Team is now available on our disclosure log at: ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/

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Job – National #DataProtection Manager at

@changegrowlive

, location flexible (remote working) careers-changegrowlive.icims.com/jobs/10199/nat (UK) #thirdsector #socialcare #mentalhealth

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Written response from

@biztradegovuk

minister to

@libdemdaisy

last month questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi Very dubious.

@HMLandRegistry

records are "publicly accessible" – but mostly only at a price that makes it difficult to carry out bulk analyses of property ownership. Not #opendata.

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Chris Pounder

@hawktalk_blog

May 15

The DPDI No.2 Bill (overturns the Third Party direct marketing rules in relation to data subject’s consent that have applied for 40 years, ever since the DPA1984. The blog shows how Third Party marketeers can lawfully rely on legitimate interests

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New and useful #dataprotection posts by

@hopkinsrobin

: ● #Subjectaccess requests: what do you need to provide? panopticonblog.com/2023/05/12/424 ● Subject access disputes: exemptions, closed procedures and more panopticonblog.com/2023/05/12/sub ● #GDPR and privacy damages panopticonblog.com/2023/05/12/gdp

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Jacob Rees-Mogg Admits Tory Voter ID Law Was 'Gerrymandering'

Jon Sopel

@jonsopel

May 15

Don’t want to go over the top, but this is absolutely jaw-dropping. Someone who was in the cabinet when legislation on voter ID was agreed and went through parliament acknowledges it WAS an attempt to gerrymander the elections

huffingtonpost.co.uk

Former cabinet minister says government attempt to suppress Labour support backfired and made it harder for Conservatives to vote.

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This position from

is weird and I think needs clarification. I'm a little wary of stories fed to media by privacy activists. However, on the facts as described in the article, it seems readily apparent that the data subject was affected by the breach. #dataprotection

Cambridgeshire constabulary said the woman had reported that she had been harassed. However, "an investigation was conducted and was filed due to lack of evidence", a spokesperson said. The information commissioner said it had no power to help the woman and that it was CUH, and not her, that the data breach had affected.

NHS England declined to comment.

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Warnings over #NHSdata privacy after 'stalker' doctor shares woman's records theguardian.com/society/2023/m #NHSdata #patientdata #dataprotection #databreaches

Addenbrooke's initially denied it was possible for its staff to access GP Connect through Epic. However, in a meeting with the victim Dr John Firth, its deputy medical director, did acknowledge that her full GP records were available. Michelle Ellerbeck, its head of information governance, later emailed the woman to thank her for showing them that it could be done, in case "this enquiry ever comes up again".

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Also this requirement that would allow civil society groups et al to raise data breach complaints on behalf of data subjects generally. #DPDIBill #dataprotection #databreaches

Labour amendment to the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill that inserts a new clause that would require the Secretary of State to exercise powers under s190 DPA 2018 to allow organisations to raise data breach complaints on behalf of data subjects generally, in the absence of a particular subject who wishes to bring forward a claim about misuse of their own personal data.

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Labour isn't challenging the fundamentals of the #DPDIBill. However, some of the amendments are potentially consequential if they stick. E.g. a requirement for public bodies to publish assessments of high risk processing conducted under UK GDPR. #DPIAs #dataprotection #opengov

Labour amendment to the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill that inserts a new requirement into Article 35 of UKGDPR, for any public authority which uses public data to publish any assessment of high risk processing they conduct under Article 35.

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Updated amendment paper for the Committee stage of the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill, now with numerous amendments proposed by Labour publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill + bills.parliament.uk/bills/3430/sta #DPDIBill #dataprotection

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Mystery solved, I guess … TIL DPA 1998, though repealed, is still operative for purposes of PECR enforcement legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/ HT

@crappodon

Possibly other subordinate legislation hangs on DPA 1998 also, but PECR is a live issue because #DPDIBill includes some changes.

Paragraph 58 of Schedule 20 of the Data Protection Act 2018

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wut legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/ #dataprotection

Data Protection Act 1998

Changes to legislation: Data Protection Act 1998 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 13 May 2023. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date

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Missing ICO decision notices? owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ico1 new blog post #FOI #opendata I've checked icosearch.ico.org.uk/s/search.html? for all the decision notices that

served in 2022 (according to ICO's own casework datasets), and identified 30 that may not have been published.

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Department for Education (DfE) spend data April 2010 - March 2023 drive.google.com/uc?export=down (40.3 MB zipped CSV) #publicspending #opendata

Disability News Service

@johnpringdns

disabilitynewsservice.com

DWP blocks release of report on impact of its errors on ‘vulnerable’ claimants #DWP #FreedomOfInformation #FoIA

DWP blocks release of report on impact of its errors on ‘vulnerable’ claimants

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is blocking the release of a paper that details the impact of its own errors on disabled people whose deaths are likely to be linked to its failings and p…

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More #ODCamp tickets yo (they're free) #opendata eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-data-ca

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Giuseppe Sollazzo

@puntofisso

May 12

We're releasing more tickets for the next Open Data Camp, to be held at @wlv_uni's Springfield Campus. Come join us on 1-2 July and let's talk about #data, #opendata, #transparency, #opengov, #ddj, and even #AI. #odcamp eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-data-ca

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👉 Hansard transcript of yesterday's oral evidence to the Commons committee scrutinising the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill: ● AM sitting hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-0 ● PM sitting hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-0 Bill bills.parliament.uk/bills/3430 #DPDIBill #dataprotection

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#courtreporting #courtdata #justicedata #accesstodata #opendata #datapolicy

#OpenJustice: the way forward gov.uk/government/con call for evidence from

@MoJGovUK

In 2022, the Justice Select Committee (JSC) began an inquiry examining the effects of digitisation on the courts, the media and open justice. This concluded with the publication of its report – Court Reporting in the Digital Age. The JSC report produced a series of recommendations concerning topics such as published listings, broadcasting, remote observation, access to court documents and the publication of judgments.

The contents of this call for evidence cover many of the issues raised in the JSC report; however, we have expanded our focus beyond court reporting to include open justice matters which affect all members of the public. This includes issues across jurisdictions, HMCTS services, within legislation, throughout public legal education, and on access to data and information. We are examining these topics as they impact on open justice and transparency, and all have undergone a period of change and modernisation over the last decade. …

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ICO "does not use #AI" – really? informationrightsandwrongs.com/2023/05/10/ico post by Jon Baines questioning the accuracy of an #FOI response from

#dataprotection Fair point. Mundane use cases for AI are the most pervasive, even if less technically interesting from a regulatory perspective.

However, if one uses most of the standard definitions of AI (such as the one from the government's National AI Strategy: "machines that perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, especially when the machines learn from data how to do those tasks") one might find that hard to believe. What about spam filters on the ICO email network? Or the fact they recommend Google Maps for anyone needing directions to their offices? Or their corporate use of social media? All of those technologies use, or constitute, AI.

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Martin Rosenbaum

@rosenbaum6

My account of the FOI legal issues in dispute in the tribunal case of

@NoSecretLessons

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&

@school_sexed

- the hearing was completed today, judgment expected within 4 weeks - rosenbaum.org.uk/clare-page-v-i

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16 or so pages of Government amendments to the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill #DPDIBill #dataprotection Mainly technical refinements, I think. (Could be some shady stuff, but I haven't read in detail.)

Government has taken back control of its Retained EU law dashboard by moving it to Power BI gov.uk/government/pub #REUL #govtech Written statement questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statem The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill is back in the Lords next week lordswhips.org.uk/fb

The catalogue of REUL can be accessed via Microsoft Power BI, which hosts the third iteration of the interactive REUL dashboard. The new data included in this update was collected by departments in April 2023 as part of an ongoing cross-government collaborative exercise to identify REUL that did not otherwise have a clear departmental owner. This exercise has identified over 4,800 individual pieces of REUL in total, which are now present in the dashboard. This is an increase of approximately 1,080 pieces since the last iteration. This dashboard provides multiple options to explore and filter the legislation, which is concentrated over 400 unique policy areas. Future updates to the dashboard will take place throughout 2023. These will include further previously ‘orphaned’ REUL which has been identified by The National Archives.

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Connected by Data

@ConnectedByData

@ChiOnwurah asks about how the citizenry can be empowered. The Commissioner says the ICO acts as a proxy for the public in a complex and technical domain.

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👉 The UK Government has published Keeling schedules for the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill, with the tracked changes to UK GDPR, DPA 2018, and PECR gov.uk/government/pub #DPDIBill #dataprotection Long overdue and awaited by IG practitioners.

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Outdated IT systems threaten UK food security and air quality, say MPs theguardian.com/environment/20 +

@CommonsPAC

report on

@DefraGovUK

's aging digital services publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmse #foodsecurity #airpollution #defradata #govtech

3. Defra has not given enough attention to the impact of its poor digital services on its users. To users, legacy IT systems feel outdated or lack functionality and they are at higher risk of temporary crashes. Defra has recently upgraded its system that vets and farmers use to record bovine tuberculosis test results. Previously vets had to buy old laptops to be able to run the programme. …

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John Edwards

@JCE_IC

Finally the day has come!! Tune in!

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The Commons committee scrutinising the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill is taking oral evidence all day today, starting at 9:25am committees.parliament.uk/committee/665/ (livestream) #DPDIBill #dataprotection Guest-starring @JeniT. Also the Information Commissioner, @JCE_IC.

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The Commons committee scrutinising the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill is taking oral evidence all day today, starting at 9:25am committees.parliament.uk/committee/665/ (livestream) #DPDIBill #dataprotection Guest-starring

@JeniT

. Also the Information Commissioner,

@JCE_IC

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Update: actually, DfT doesn't hold a list of local lighthouse authorities … whatdotheyknow.com/request/list_o #FOI

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The Department for Transport does not maintain a list of Local Lighthouse Authorities as there is no legal requirement for the Secretary of State to do so therefore the information that you seek is not held by the Department. Oversight of the Aids to Navigations (AtoNs) the Local Lighthouse Authorities provide is one of the statutory roles delegated to the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs). An AtoN is any light, buoy, beacon, fog signal, Racon (Radar Beacon), Automatic Identification System (if transmitting message 21), Differential GPS or any combination of those.
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Minutes of the Postcode Address File Advisory Board's meeting on 20 April 2023 pafboard.org.uk/wp-content/upl #addressdata

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Datadaptive

@datadaptive

May 9

UK #WindEnergy Locations (April 2023) datadaptive.com/?pg=8 free spatial dataset with locations of onshore and offshore wind projects, compiled from the latest release of

@energygovuk

's Renewable Energy Planning Database #renewableenergy #renewables #geospatial #opendata

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#Census2021 estimates that classify all households (excl caravans etc) by accommodation type by tenure by number of rooms by car or van availability ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati ad hoc release from

@Census2021

/

@ONS

, with counts for E/W down to ward #UKhousing #transportdata #opendata

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Scores of local #pharmacies closing across England bbc.co.uk/news/health-65 #healthdata #opendata #ddj I think this current figure is based on

@NHSBSA

's contractor lists (published behind a login) applications.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/infosystems/re as official stats haven't caught up nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-co

The number of pharmacies in England has fallen by 160 over the last two years, BBC analysis shows.

There are now 11,026 community chemists, according to data from NHS Business Services Authority - the lowest number since 2015.

Rising operational costs, staff shortages and reduced government financial support have been blamed.

This is despite rising patient demand, and plans for pharmacists to provide more services to ease pressure on GPs.

Pharmacists are warning that many more local businesses could close, without help.

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'Too greedy': mass walkout at global science journal over 'unethical' fees theguardian.com/science/2023/m #Elsevier #scipub #openaccess As reported last month: Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges nature.com/articles/d4158

Neuroimage, the leading publication globally for brain-imaging research, is one of many journals that are now "open access" rather than sitting behind a subscription paywall. But its charges to authors reflect its prestige, and academics now pay over £2,700 for a research paper to be published. The former editors say this is "unethical" and bears no relation to the costs involved.

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Imaging Neuroscience EiC

@ImagingNeurosci

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All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal imaging-neuroscience.org This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

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#GDPR compensation claims: no threshold of seriousness panopticonblog.com/2023/05/05/gdp post by

@hopkinsrobin

via

@11KBW

's Panopticon blog #dataprotection

Panopticon has covered a number of judgments handed down in the UK over the last year or two that demonstrate judicial scepticism about compensation claims for alleged data protection infringements. In a number of cases (though not all), judges have been particularly sceptical whether, on the facts before them, the claim – even if made out – would pass the threshold of seriousness for entitlement to compensation. Some, however, argue that compensation claims under the GDPR/UK GDPR are not subject to any such threshold. So what's the answer?

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Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

Wanted: a government that cares about civil liberties. We need to build a civil society & electoral coalition that will ultimately repeal or amend the Public Order Act 2023, Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Act 2022, & Criminal Justice Act 1994.

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Lammy stating clearly that Labour will not repeal the anti-protest legislation if it gets into government 'We can't come into office picking through all the Conservative legislation and repealing it. It would take too much time.'

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