The live stream of our briefing on the Data use and Access Bill is now live on You Tube at - https://youtube.com/live/EHIXGz9KGzM #HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DUABill #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics
Data protection can defend us against harmful AI practices.
BUT the Data Use and Access Bill (UK) weakens our rights and gives companies and organisations more powers to use automated decisions.
This is of particular concern in policing, welfare and immigration where life-changing decisions could be made without human review.
The new Bill reheats the mistakes of the failed #DPDIBill.
Read our response 
Is privacy back on the chopping block in the UK? 
A Digital Information and Smart Data Bill has been announced with a narrower scope around #dataprotection reform.
We warn against reintroducing elements of the disastrous #DPDIBill – from liberalising data sharing to threatening the data watchdog and the UK-EU adequacy agreement.
We need socially responsible innovation within limits... strong data protection in other words.
Read now
Whatever the UK #GeneralElection brings, ORG will fight for our digital rights in a fast-moving and hostile political environment.
The defeat of the #DPDIBill shows what we can achieve together 
Join the movement today
Fire up the shredders for the #DPDIBill 
It’s so long, see you never 
for this flawed legislation that would’ve removed controls over our data and handed power to UK government bodies and companies.
ORG and civil society organisations fought the Bill to ensure it wasn’t just nodded into law 
@openrightsgroup I’m informed the #DPDIBill is dead. It didn’t make it in the parliamentary ‘wash-up’ process.
I’m overjoyed. Good riddance.
The #DPDIBill (UK) must not be rushed through in the last days of this Parliament.
This Bill will impact privacy rights of everyone in the UK and parliamentarians should have sufficient time to scrutinise it.
Tell your MP to block the Bill.
#HandsOffOurData #DPDIBill #privacy #dataprotection #GDPR #ukpolitics
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/email-your-mp-stop-data-grab-bill
“The DPDI Bill will take away some of the control we have over our data and hand more power to government bodies and companies.
The British people deserve there to be proper parliamentary scrutiny of laws that could have a huge impact on our lives."
@jim – ORG Exec Director.
The #DPDIBIll will:
Put the UK's adequacy agreement with the EU at risk.
Expose millions to welfare surveillance over their bank accounts.
Weaken the data protection watchdog.
Make it harder to access our data.
Make it easier for data to be reused and shared.
ORG calls on the UK government to SCRAP the controversial #Data Protection and Digital Information Bill now that they've called a #GeneralElection for 4 July.
A Bill that batters our data rights shouldn't be rammed through last minute, bypassing the remaining stages of Parliamentary scrutiny.
Hot mics at the ready, it’s UK election time 
ORG calls on all parties to respect digital rights
They can start by ditching the flawed #DPDIBill and not rush it through in the dying gasps of this Parliament 
We'll publish our manifesto soon 
Stop welfare surveillance
Today ORG joined Big Brother Watch, 38degrees, Organise and other groups to deliver a 270,000+ strong petition to 10 Downing Street.
We say NO to powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill that’ll let the UK government spy on the bank accounts of ANY benefit claimant.
The #DPDIBill will make it easier for the UK government to turn private companies into informants through new legal grounds for data sharing and Ministerial powers to expand these purposes.
The government's disrespect of data rights is underpinned by the weak enforcement approach of the Information Commissioner's Office.
Public shaming, rather than legally binding enforcement actions and penalties, makes it possible to ignore data protection laws.
So the dangers still remain.
Through the #DPDIBill, the UK government will reintroduce barriers for migrants to access data, as intended by the Immigration Exemption.
Subject access requests are fundamental for migrants and us all to engage with and challenge decisions that affect people's lives.
The #DPDIBill turns the tables by making it easier to refuse these requests.
Join our campaign to stop the Bill.
The Immigration Exemption aims to let the UK Home Office and companies refuse requests for personal data because it might 'prejudice the maintenance of effective immigration control'.
We've fought against this exceptionalism in data protection, but the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill could undo it all.
@sarahalsherif ORG Programme Manager for Migrant Digital Justice.
Changes in the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will exacerbate the existing power imbalances that migrants, refugees and asylum seekers have over their data.
This will lead to significant harms and an expansion of the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.
Read our briefing for more
#dataprotection #DPDIBill #privacy #migrants #GDPR #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-how-the-dpdi-bill-harms-migrants-data-rights/
The #DPDIBill is a reckless gamble with the UK economy by putting at risk the EU adequacy agreement. Is it worth it?
Tell your MP (UK) that they need to stop the Bill in its tracks.
#HandsOffOurData #EU #dataprotection #data #privacy #ukpolitics #DPDIBill #GDPR
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/email-your-mp-stop-data-grab-bill
"The concerns of the LIBE committee highlights how the data rights of people in the UK will be reduced compared to people living in Europe. This should not be acceptable to our parliamentarians.”
@marianods, ORG Legal and Policy Officer.
#EU #dataprotection #data #privacy #ukpolitics #DPDIBill #GDPR
The EU adequacy agreement requires the UK to have equivalent protections over personal data for there to be a free flow of data.
The #DPDIBill tramples over that regime, leading to a disruption of trade and research.
UK businesses could face £1-1.6 billion in legal fees alone.
#EU #dataprotection #data #privacy #ukpolitics #DPDIBill #GDPR
https://neweconomics.org/2020/11/the-cost-of-data-inadequacy
The EU LIBE Committee raises key concerns with the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill:
Changes to the definition of personal data.
Threats to the independence of the Information Commissioner's Office and scrapping the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner.
International data transfers that would bypass EU rules.
