How the Data Protection Bill reduces data subject rights and, in particular, workers’ rights

Just published on Hawktalk: http://amberhawk.typepad.com/amberhawk/

Given that it is the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill (DPBill) today, I thought I would write a series of blogs identifying where the DPBill is deficient; this is especially important, as last Friday, the Prime Minister stated that a high standard of data protection was essential to a prosperous, post-Brexit, Britain and that “The UK has exceptionally high standards of data protection”.

So, given the Prime Minister’s claims, it is timely to explain one area where her Data Protection Bill works to reduce the protection for data subjects.  Not only that; where she has made a political choice of whether to enhance workers’

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