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Posts tagged Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport
GDP-ouR
GDP-ouR

In a speech at the Conservative Party Conference 2022, Michelle Donelan MP, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, announced a bespoke British system of data protection, appearing to indicate a significant revision to the Data Protection and Digital Reform Bill currently undergoing Parliamentary consideration and a potential consolidation of the UK’s data protection law framework.

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Nicola CainData Protection, Data Protection Reform, Data Reform Bill, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, Retained EU law, Data Protection Act 1998, DATA PROTECTION ACT 2018, UK GDPR, GDPR, PECR, Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport, Michelle Donelan, Conservative Party, Conservative Party Conference 2022, section 3(10) Data Protection Act 2018, UK Adequacy, International data transfers, US Data Transfers, Department for Digital Culture Media & SportComment
DCMS SoS?
DCMS SoS?

Handley Gill considers the impact of the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, and Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for the Online Safety Bill and the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

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Nicola CainDCMS, Department for Digital Culture Media & Sport, Online Safety, ONLINE SAFETY BILL, Online Harms, Data Protection, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Liz Truss, Nadine Dorries, Michelle Donelan, Kemi Badenoch, Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport, Bill 121 2022-23, Bill 143 2022-23, PMQs, Sir Jeremy Wright, Prime Minister, Children, Data Protection Reform, GDPR, UK GDPR, DATA PROTECTION ACT 2018, PECR, Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, BREXIT, Data: A New Direction, Adequacy Decision, UK Adequacy, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONComment
Truss calls time for TikTok?
Truss calls time for TikTok?

As Conservative Party Leadership Contest candidate Liz Truss threatened to crack down on ByteDance, the Chinese owner of social media platform TikTok, during the BBC’s News Special ‘Our Next Prime Minister’ on 25 July 2022, we explore how she might seek to do that under the National Security and Investment Act 2021, through amendments to the Online Safety Bill and/or Data Protection and Digital Information Bill and through the actions of regulators Ofcom and the Information Commissioner.

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Nicola CainConservative Party, Conservative Party Leader, Prime Minister, Liz Truss, Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport, Foreign Secretary, TikTok, ByteDance, China, Rishi Sunak, Faisal Islam, BBC, National Security and Investment Act 2021, The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (Notifiable Acquisition) (Specification of Qualifying Entities) Regulations 2021, Defamation, Absolute Privilege, ONLINE SAFETY BILL, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Data Protection & Digital Information Bill, DPDI Bill, OFCOM, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Information Commission, ICO25, Fit and Proper, Video on Demand, VOD, Video Streaming Sites, Video Sharing Platforms, VSPs, International data transfers, Data Localisation, Prior Consultation, Statement of Strategic Priorities, Kemi Badenoch, CONTENT REGULATION, Platform Regulation, Technology Regulation, USER GENERATED CONTENT, UGCComment