The DP Bill is Dead. Long Live the UK GDPR!

After 24 hours of speculation, it is now confirmed that the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill has fallen in the House of Lords and will proceed no further. It is now an ex-Bill!

The Bill failed to make it into the “wash-up” process following Rishi Sunak’s surprise General Election announcement. It seems that the controversial parts of the Bill, such as the DWP’s bank account snooping powers, prevented cross party agreement.

We now have to wait for publication of the political parties’ manifestos to see their plans for Data Protection reform (if any). It could be that they propose to combine DP reform with AI regulation. Watch this space!

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