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HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information Bill17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information Bill17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI would be very happy to participate in that discussion, absolutely.17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for tabling these amendments to Clauses 44 and 45, which would reform the framework for…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillIf the action is raised on behalf of named individuals, those named individuals have to have given consent for that. If the action is for a general class of people, those people…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillThe reason was that an extensive consultation was undertaken in 2021 by the Government, and the Government concluded at that time that there was insufficient evidence to take what…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillFair enough. Maybe for the time being, it will satisfy the Committee if I share a copy of that consultation and what evidence was considered, if that would work. I will turn now…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillNo, as I was about to say, we need to take these issues seriously. The noble Lord raised a number of specific cases. I was unfamiliar with them at the start of the debate—17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI will go away and look at those; I look forward to learning more about them. There are obvious implications in what the noble Lord said as to the most effective ways of…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI thank the noble Lord; that is an important point. The question is: how does the Sorting Hat operate to distribute cases between the various tribunals and the court system? We…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI thank the noble Lords, Lord Clement-Jones and Lord Bassam, for their comments. As the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, points out, it is a pretty complex and demanding area, but…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information Bill17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillThat is absolutely fair enough: I will of course write. Sadly, we are not joined today by ministerial colleagues from the Home Office, who have some other Bill going on.17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillOn this point, the argument that the Government are making is that, where consumers want to use a digital verification service, all the Bill does is to provide a mechanism for…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillThe Bill does not change the requirements in this sense. If any organisation chooses to provide its services on a digital basis only, that is up to that organisation, and it is up…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillIt is very important that the OneLogin system is entirely separate and not considered a DVS system. We considered whether it should be, but the view was that that comes close to…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI am very happy to do so. I turn finally to Amendments 289 and 300, which aim to introduce a criminal offence of digital identity theft. The Government are committed to tackling…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI have no doubt that its contribution to the letter will be equally enjoyable. However, for all the reasons I set out above, I am not able to accept these amendments and…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Bennett, Lady Young of Old Scone and Lady Jones, for their proposed amendments on extending the definition of business data in smart…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI do not know what I could possibly have said to create the impression that the Government are flying blind on this matter. We continue to engage extensively with the EU at junior…17 Apr 2024