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HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)Q Your predecessor raised the issue of the use of inferred data among users’ protected data characteristics—political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation—and said…10 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)Q What do you think it means? What is the scope of it? Jonathan Sellors: If I may, can I come back to you on that with a written response, when I have given it slightly further…10 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)Q I have a final question. We have this legislation, and then different tech companies and operating systems have separate guidelines that they work to as well. One of the issues…10 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)Q In terms of access to personal data, a lot of what we are talking about, certainly when we are talking about children, relates to what we generally call big-tech companies. A…10 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)Dr Tennison? Dr Tennison: On your first point, around the targets of decisions, one of the things that we would really argue for is changing the sets of people who have rights…10 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)Q The age-appropriate design code for children was mentioned in our session this morning. Do you have any thoughts on what the Bill could mean for the application of that design…10 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)Q For some people, their job is done through technology. Take a gig economy worker working for a delivery company. Do you have concerns about how app developers design their…10 May 2023HANSARD Gambling Act Review White PaperI congratulate the Secretary of State and her officials on their work to produce this review. I agree that the Gambling Commission needs to be a data-savvy regulator. Can she…27 Apr 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Folkestone library at Grace Hill in the town was one of the early Carnegie libraries, an important cultural hub as well as a working building. It is currently closed because…27 Apr 2023HANSARD Artificial Intelligence and the Labour MarketIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship this afternoon, Dame Maria, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mick Whitley), both on securing this very important…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Artificial Intelligence and the Labour MarketThe Minister talks about safety, but does he agree that that has to be safety by design, and not just having response mechanisms built into the system so that a victim can appeal?…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Artificial Intelligence and the Labour MarketThe hon. Gentleman makes an incredibly important point. When AI systems such as that are asked questions that they do not know, rather than responding, “I don’t know,” they just…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Artificial Intelligence and the Labour MarketThe Minister is exactly right. That initiative also suggests that AI is not yet here but, actually, the issues we have discussed today exist already. We can look at them already;…26 Apr 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) BillMy right hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. In some ways, we have already seen evidence of that at work: there was a much-talked-about case where Amazon was using an…17 Apr 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) BillI am delighted to speak in support of this long-awaited Bill. It is a necessary piece of legislation to learn the lessons from GDPR and look at how we can improve the system, both…17 Apr 2023HANSARDAsylum and Immigration Applications BacklogAs my right hon. Friend knows, the sudden influx over, say, a bank holiday weekend of thousands of migrants who have crossed the channel in small boats causes substantial…20 Mar 2023HANSARDBudget Resolutions and Economic SituationIt is, as always, a pleasure to follow the Shadow Secretary of State, although I could not help noticing that she seemed to spend longer making general political points about the…20 Mar 2023HANSARD Science and Technology FrameworkI welcome the framework and also my right hon. Friend’s commitment that the Government will soon be publishing the national semiconductor strategy. Does she agree that this is a…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy constituents on the south Kent coast have seen with their own eyes the rapid increase in small boat crossings in the past few years. Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree…07 Mar 2023HANSARD Football Governance White PaperIt is wonderful to see ideas presented as Government policy that many of us in this House have been advocating for more than a decade. I fully welcome the White Paper, but will…23 Feb 2023