This bill overhauls UK data protection law by replacing the GDPR with a new framework, creating digital verification services, enabling business data access, and establishing a new Information Commission to regulate data use.
A Bill to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals; to make provision about services consisting of the use of information to ascertain and verify facts about individuals; to make provision about access to customer data and business data; to make provision about privacy and electronic communications; to make provision about services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services; to make provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery; to make provision for the implementation of agreements on sharing information for law enforcement purposes; to make provision about the keeping and maintenance of registers of births and deaths; to make provision about information standards for health and social care; to establish the Information Commission; to make provision about oversight of biometric data; and for connected purposes.
Status: In Progress
Current House: Lords
Stage: Committee stage
Sponsored by: Michelle Donelan, Viscount Camrose
Introduced: 2023-03-08