I'm sure Joseph Cannataci had a nice expensive lunch in Cheltenham.....
Quote: "...Joseph Cannataci has met public bodies, spy agencies, civil rights groups, politicians and the judiciary to assess the UK's privacy and surveillance set up..."
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As we learned from the Snowden disclosures, what "spy agencies" and "public bodies" admit to doing, and what they are actually doing are worlds apart. Some examples:
[GCHQ Hacks our friends in Belgium]
https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-inside-story/
[HMRC builds secret voiceprint database] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/25/hmrc_taxpayer_voiceprints_legal_basis_gdpr_questioned_database/
[Interpol builds secret voiceprint database]
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/interpol-voice-identification-database/
The last two items have been in the news in the last month. What else is going on? It would be prudent to work on the assumption that privacy is non-existent, and that GDPR is simply a useful political fiction to hide that fact.