Member

The monitoring and enforcement of data protection laws must be carried out objectively and free from partisan or extralegal considerations but there appears to be a lack of criticality—speaking truth to power—in the present ICO. The commissioner expressed views on the DPDI Bill that match those of the Government, despite widespread criticism coming from other arm’s-length bodies such as the National Data Guardian, the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The Information Commissioner has once again welcomed this Bill, despite the fact that the new Bill dropped several provisions of the old DPDI Bill that the ICO was previously supportive of. Where is the objective and constructive feedback on government policies?