The Law Commission has invited interested parties to write submissions commenting on the proposals outlined in a consultation report on ‘official data protection’. The consultation period closed for submissions on 3 May, although some organisations have been given an extended deadline. (For more detailed background on the Law Commission’s work please see the first post in this series).
The Information Law and Policy Centre is re-publishing some of the submissions written by stakeholders and interested parties in response to the Law Commission’s consultation report (pdf) to our blog. In due course, we will collate the submissions on a single resource page. If you have written a submission for the consultation you would like (re)-published please contact us.
Please note that none of the published submissions reflect the views of the Information Law and Policy Centre which aims to promote and facilitate cross-disciplinary law and policy research, in collaboration with a variety of national and international institutions.
The eleventh submission in our series is the response submitted by Professor Lorna Woods (professor in law, University of Essex); Dr Lawrence McNamara (reader in law, University of York and senior research fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law); and Dr Judith Townend, (lecturer in media and information law at the University of Sussex). They are all affiliated members of the Information Law and Policy Centre. The views expressed by the authors in this report are made in a personal capacity and do not represent the views of the ILPC. Their submission was accompanied by a blog post.
(Previous submissions published in this series: Open Rights Group, CFOI and Article 19, The Courage Foundation, Liberty, Public Concern at Work, The Institute of Employment Rights, Transparency International UK, National Union of Journalists, and English Pen, Reporters Without Borders and Index on Censorship, and the Open Government Network.)
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