Member

I support Amendment 27. It is an important amendment that would ensure that significant decisions impacting a child could not be made solely using automated decision-making unless those decisions were in the child’s best interests. This is a rather ingenious safeguard to ensure that children’s rights and welfare are fully considered in decisions that could affect them. The amendment would ensure that decisions made using automated processes could not be taken unless it was clear that they served the best interests of the child, taking into account their rights and development stage. The amendment would build on the principles already set out in the Data Protection Act 2018, reinforcing the need for extra protections for children.