Potential changes to data protection legislation (May 2023)

Posted Wednesday 31st May by Admin User

Uk Government is currently seeking views on the Data Protection and Digital Information (No 2) Bill. The Bill is currently at Committee stage, so there may be changes to what is proposed by the Bill depending on its progress through Parliament. The expected deadline for comment is 13 June and SFHA will be submitting a brief response.

SFHA has commissioned TC Young to produce a briefing on the contents of the Bill for SFHA members, to highlight those areas most relevant to RSLs.

Appears in:

Governance Information Governance

The briefing looks at proposed changes relating to:

the removal of the requirement to have a DPO
complaints from individuals
subject access requests
lawful use of personal data
purpose limitation
record keeping
automated decision-making
the role of the ICO
privacy and electronic communications
EU adequacy

If you would like to feed into SFHA's response, or have any queries regarding the content of the briefing, please contact Alan Stokes, Policy Lead astokes@sfha.co.uk

The full briefing is available to all SFHA members by clicking on the link to the right of this article.