MPs lay into UK.gov's planned immigration data exemptions The UK government's plan to excuse itself from having to hand over information about the data it holds on immigrants has received short shrift from MPs. In the first debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Commons on Monday evening – the draft text having been passed by the Lords in January – MPs lambasted an …
Hancock also shrugged off Cherry's statement that legal opinions suggested the immigration exemption would not be permissible under the GDPR, saying simply that "there are always legal opinions about everything".
Indeed there are and the place where these get resolved is in court. Maybe the prospect of a fine of 4% of HMGs revenue ought to concentrate his mind. Perhaps someone should ask the Chancellor if his budget contains provision for this.
"In a recent answer to a House of Lords question, the other place was told that in the 10 years to 2015, 250,000 appeals were allowed against the Home Office," - I suspect this may be part of the reason for the immigration data exemption. Instead of trying to make fewer mistakes, they're trying to make it harder for people to prove mistakes have been made.
The other factors in the reasoning are probably general anti-immigrant bias and government's apparent determination to hide all the data they possess, even as they slurp up everybody else's.
where are the clauses that make responsible civil servants and ministers personally liable, under both civil and criminal law, and unable to hide behind crown immunity (or using public funds for defence / fines) if they fail to protect personal data?
Could it be that "our" government doesn't give a * about citizens rights?
(Sorry, that was a silly quesiton: we know that they do not. Mrs May said she'd seek to protect rights, yet her ministers are busy trying to strip key rights away from people)
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