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HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I will keep my comments brief as these are all technical amendments to the Bill. I understand that Amendments 133 and 136 are necessary for the functioning of the law…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for their comments and contributions. I shall jump to Amendments 159 and 159A, one of which is in my name and both of which are concerned with cookie paywalls.…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I too thank all noble Lords for their insightful contributions to this important group of amendments, even if some of them bemoaned the fact that they have had to repeat…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, none of us can be under any illusion about the growing threats of cyberattacks, whether from state actors, state-affiliated actors or criminal gangs. It is pretty…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]Does the Minister agree that the crux of this machinery is solely automated decision-making as a binary thing—it is or it is not—and, therefore, that the absolute key to it is…16 Dec 2024HANSARDPublic Authority Algorithmic and Automated Decision-Making Systems Bill [HL]My Lords, of course I must start by joining others in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for bringing forward this timely and important Bill, with whose aims we on these…13 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I start by thanking all noble Lords who spoke for their comments and fascinating contributions. We on these Benches share the concern of many noble Lords about the Bill allowing…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]Many thanks to the noble Lords who have spoken in this debate and to the noble Lord, Lord Freyberg, for his Amendment 60. Before I start, let me endorse and add my name to the…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]Many thanks to all noble Lords who have proposed and supported these amendments. I will speak to just a few of them. Amendment 70 looks to mitigate the lowering of the consent…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank in particular the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, who has clearly had his Weetabix this morning. I will comment on some of the many amendments tabled. On Amendments 73,…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank the noble Viscount, Lord Colville, and the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for their remarks and support, and the Minister for her helpful response. Just over 70% of…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendments 66, 67 and 80 in this group are all tabled in my name. Amendment 66 requires scientific research carried out for commercial purposes to “be subject to the…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I start by speaking to two amendments tabled in my name. Amendment 91 seeks to change “the definition of request by data subjects to data controllers” that can be declined or “for…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, for bringing forward amendments in what is a profoundly important group. For all that…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, there is a great deal to be gained from digitising the registers of births, stillbirths and deaths. Not only does it reduce the number of physical documents that need to…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank the Minister. I take the point that this has been ongoing for a while and that, in fact, the security is better because there is less reliance on the paper documents. That…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for raising this, and the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, for raising the possibility that we are in the presence of a digital avatar of…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for their comments and contributions in what has been an absolutely fascinating debate. I have a couple of points to make. I agree with the noble Lord, Lord…03 Dec 2024HANSARDUndersea CablesMy Lords, we of course recognise and share the Government’s and House’s concern about increased Russian military activity around these undersea cables. I was pleased that the…03 Dec 2024