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Data Protection Reform?

Looking at the contents of the Government’s new Bill suggests it may be more about Digital Information than Data Protection: Personal Data Processing (1-23) National Security & Intelligence Services (24-6) Information Commissioner’s Role etc. (27-43) Miscellaneous (44-5) Digital Verification Services (46-60) Customer & Business Data (a general framework for services like Open Banking) (61-77) Privacy […]

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Cookies: limits of regulation

In going through the new (2023) Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill I noticed that it does actually make a change to UK law on cookies: according to clause 79(2A), consent will no longer be needed to store or access information in the user’s terminal equipment if this is done by the person who […]