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date	16/04/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Social Media: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that social media companies are complying fully with the Data Protection Act 1998 and associated General Data Protection Regulations.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	135871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is responsible for regulating compliance with data protection legislation.</p><p> </p><p>There are a number of tools available to the ICO to ensure compliance. These include criminal prosecution, non-criminal enforcement and audit. The Information Commissioner also has the power to serve a monetary penalty notice on a data controller. Further details of the actions which can be taken can be found on <a href="http://www.ico.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.ico.org.uk</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The government's Data Protection Bill will strengthen legislation around data protection and give the Commissioner tougher powers to ensure that organisations comply.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 24/04/2018 11:56:28 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

884884

registered interest
date	16/04/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people who use online platforms are aware of the nature and volume of their data that is retained by the companies responsible for those platforms as a result of that use.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	135872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>We take both the protection of personal data and the right to privacy extremely seriously. Our new data protection legislation is going to make our laws fit for the digital age in which an ever increasing amount of data is being processed. Organisations will need to be clearer with people how their data will be used and ensure that any consent obtained is clear, unambiguous and purposeful. It will empower people to take control of their data, strengthening their rights to move or delete personal data.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 24/04/2018 12:02:13 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

872218

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Local Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to protect the independence of regional press organisations.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	134132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to a free and independent press, and only intervene in cases where publishers have broken the law. This is vital to a strong and fully functioning democracy where the powerful can be held to account without fear.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 03/04/2018 12:32:01 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day