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HANSARDOnline Safety (List of Overseas Regulators) Regulations 2024My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction. We all welcome the fact that the Bill is now an Act, of course. In a sense, these regulations are the first swallow of spring.…16 Jan 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction to the Bill today and congratulate the noble Lord, Lord de Clifford, on his maiden speech. I think we all very much appreciated…19 Dec 2023HANSARDData Protection (Fundamental Rights and Freedoms) (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, before the Minister sits down, I want to pose a brief question to her. The Explanatory Memorandum states: “As this instrument is made under the Retained EU Law…12 Dec 2023HANSARDData Protection (Fundamental Rights and Freedoms) (Amendment) Regulations 2023I did not realise that this was punishment.12 Dec 2023HANSARDData Protection (Fundamental Rights and Freedoms) (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, I welcome the Minister to this crowded box-office occasion—over the years it has been for aficionados, by and large. I thank her for setting out the purpose of these…12 Dec 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, it is a great pleasure, as it always seemed to be on the then Online Safety Bill, to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, especially with her great advocacy of the…05 Dec 2023HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationMy Lords, the Government have just conducted a whole summit about the risks of AI, so why in the new data protection Bill are they weakening the already limited legal safeguards…04 Dec 2023HANSARDData Protection (Adequacy) (United States of America) Regulations 2023That this House regrets the Data Protection (Adequacy) (United States of America) Regulations 2023 and regrets in particular (1) the absence of an Impact Assessment at the time it…22 Nov 2023HANSARDData Protection (Adequacy) (United States of America) Regulations 2023My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response. I congratulate him on managing to pick up nearly all the questions and provide them with answers. He probably never thought that…22 Nov 2023HANSARDData Protection (Adequacy) (United States of America) Regulations 2023My Lords, this is clearly box-office this evening. As soon as I saw the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee’s report and its comments, I thought these regulations were a…22 Nov 2023HANSARDDigital Government (Disclosure of Information) (Identity Verification Services) Regulations 2023That is exactly the assurance that I am seeking.20 Nov 2023HANSARDDesign Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty; I wholeheartedly agree with everything that he said. I should say from the outset that we on these Benches…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDigital Government (Disclosure of Information) (Identity Verification Services) Regulations 2023My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the Minister as she comes to the final furlong, but the question of oversight raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, and by me, and the…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDigital Government (Disclosure of Information) (Identity Verification Services) Regulations 2023Let me understand this. In effect, data is being shared across departments so it is not simply a way of having a wallet, if you like, within the Cabinet Office that then gives you…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDesign Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023I am sorry to interrupt the Minister as well. In addition to the timing, it would be useful to know what the instrument is going to be. Will it be another consultation? We have…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDigital Government (Disclosure of Information) (Identity Verification Services) Regulations 2023My Lords, it is good to see the Minister move seamlessly from intellectual property to digital and data, but both can sometimes create their own questions. Since this is the first…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDigital Government (Disclosure of Information) (Identity Verification Services) Regulations 2023I entirely appreciate the Minister taking the trouble to talk us through this. The question is: for whose benefit is this? Is this so that government departments can identify…20 Nov 2023HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the council of Queen Mary University of London, with its major research interests. It is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady…14 Nov 2023HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationMy Lords, I welcome what the Minister has just said, and he clearly understands this technology, its risks and indeed its opportunities, but is he not rather embarrassed by the…14 Nov 2023HANSARDNear-earth SatellitesMy Lords, these satellites are now set to fill space at a rate of over 1,000 a year until 2030. In the Government’s National Space Strategy in Action paper of July this year, the…13 Nov 2023