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Posts tagged Statutory Code of Practice
New and improved?

The Second Reading of, and first chance for Parliament to debate, the government’s second attempt to reform the UK’s data protection legislation, in what it has described as the “improved” and “common-sense-led” Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill (Bill 265 2022-23) takes place on 17 April 2023. Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants consider its impact on the UK’s existing data protection legislation and identify amendments that would improve the Bill.

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Take Two

Handley Gill Limited’s response to the Information Commissioner’s second consultation on the draft statutory ‘Data protection and journalism code of practice’, on the processing of personal data for the purpose of journalism under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. The ICO is obliged by s.124 Data Protection Act 2018 to prepare and submit the code to the Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) for it to be laid before Parliament.

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