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1468669

registered interest
date	08/06/2022
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	Hikvision: CCTV
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has asked the National Cyber Security Centre to investigate the security of the HIKVISION surveillance cameras; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	14486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government does not comment on the details of national security assessments.</p><p>As set out in the National Cyber Strategy this year, the government takes the security of all sectors of the economy, including consumers, seriously.</p><p>The Department is leading on a number of aspects in the National Cyber Strategy. We are taking forward legislation to protect consumers in the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill, and working with the National Cyber Security Centre to assist private and public sector users of connected devices, such as surveillance cameras, to operate in a safe and secure way.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 13/06/2022 12:03:35 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1468248

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
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	Data Protection: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she had discussions with the Secretary of State for Justice, prior to publication of that Department's proposals in the document entitled Human Rights Act Reform: a Modern Bill of Rights, on the potential risks to the adequacy agreement from proposals in that document relating to the human rights regime that affect the UK General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018, as identified by the Information Commissioner.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	13709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>As was set out in the Bill of Rights consultation, the UK remains fully committed to the international human rights treaties to which it is party.</p><p>The Bill of Rights will ensure those rights in the European Convention on Human Rights can be interpreted in the UK context, with respect for our legal traditions and the will of elected lawmakers.</p><p>The UK has two EU adequacy decisions, under the General Data Protection Regulation and the Law Enforcement Directive. As the European Commission itself has made clear, a third country is not required to have exactly the same rules as the EU in order to be considered adequate. Indeed, there are thirteen other countries which have EU adequacy, including Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Canada. All of these nations pursue independent and varied approaches to data protection and human rights.</p><p>The UK is firmly committed to maintaining high data protection standards and ensuring that rights and liberties are protected - this will not change. Our view is that reform of UK legislation on human rights is compatible with maintaining free flow of personal data from international partners.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 13/06/2022 12:06:42 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1468249

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
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	Data Protection: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's consultation entitled Data: a new direction, for what reason that consultation did not assess the risk of not having an adequacy agreement relating to data transfers from the UK to the EU.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	13710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2022 answer text <p>The Data: a new direction consultation included an <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1016471/Data_Reform_Impact_Analysis_Paper.pdf" target="_blank">assessment</a> of the impact of a change in adequacy status with the EU arising as a result of proposed reforms.</p><p>The UK is firmly committed to maintaining high data protection standards - now and in the future. Protecting the privacy of individuals will continue to be a national priority. We will continue to operate a high-quality regime that promotes growth and innovation, and underpins the trustworthy use of data.</p><p>EU adequacy decisions do not require an ‘adequate’ country to have the same rules, and our view is that the proposed reform of UK legislation on personal data is compatible with maintaining free flow of personal data from Europe.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 09/06/2022 14:28:26 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1467853

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
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	Digital Technology: 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 assessment she has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on the role of data intermediaries to provide citizens with a means to gather copies of their own data produced by the digital products and services that they use.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	13123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>In November 2021 the government published the National Data Strategy Mission 1 Policy Framework which outlines our intention to develop a thriving data intermediary ecosystem. We recently consulted on whether the government should enable data intermediaries as part of the Data: A New Direction consultation. The Government is considering responses to this consultation and will publish its conclusions in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 14/06/2022 08:41:21 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1467854

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
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	Arts: 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 assessment she has made of the impact on the creative industries of the ending of the Adequacy Agreement with the European Commission in data protection.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	13124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>UK Government recognises the importance of the EU-UK data flows to cooperation and economic activity across a broad range of sectors, including the creative industries.</p><p>The UK Government <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1016471/Data_Reform_Impact_Analysis_Paper.pdf" target="_blank">published</a> an assessment of the impact of changes to our adequacy status with the EU as part of the Data: a new direction consultation. This assessment estimates that the total direct, financial impact on UK businesses economy-wide would be approximately £1.4 billion over five years. The assumptions underlying this estimate are currently being updated by the department and a statistical model that will estimate the sectoral impact will follow.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 13/06/2022 12:36:15 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1467855

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
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	Data Protection: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish any risk assessment undertaken on the loss or revocation of the Adequacy Agreement with the European Commission relating to data transfers from the UK to the EU and vice-versa which arise from the changes proposed in the consultation document entitled Data: a new direction.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	13125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>As the Department responsible for securing adequacy from the EU, DCMS has a robust internal process for monitoring the risk of those decisions being revoked or amended. As the government made clear in the Data: a new direction consultation, we believe it is perfectly possible and reasonable to expect the UK to maintain EU adequacy as it designs a future regime.</p><p>The UK is firmly committed to maintaining high data protection standards - now and in the future. We will continue to operate a high-quality regime that promotes growth and innovation, and underpins the trustworthy use of data. EU adequacy decisions do not require an ‘adequate’ country to have the same rules, and our view is that the changes proposed in the consultation document are compatible with maintaining flows of personal data from Europe.</p><p>The UK has two EU adequacy decisions, under the General Data Protection Regulation and the Law Enforcement Directive. We recognise the importance of the EU adequacy decisions to public services, law enforcement and national security cooperation, and economic activity across a broad range of sectors. The Data: a new direction consultation included an <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1016471/Data_Reform_Impact_Analysis_Paper.pdf" target="_blank">assessment</a> of the impact of a change in adequacy status with the EU arising as a result of proposed reforms. We will further address concerns raised about the risk to these decisions in the Government response to the consultation.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 13/06/2022 12:37:51 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1464644

registered interest
date	20/05/2022
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	Mobile Phones: 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 she is taking to help protect consumers from the sale of mobile tracking data (a) within the UK and (b) abroad.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	5655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>Organisations seeking to use cookies and similar technologies that track information about people accessing online services have to comply with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR), the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA). Subject to relevant exemptions, any use of cookies and similar technologies requires the provision of clear and comprehensive information as well as the consent of the user or subscriber.</p><p>The legislation does not expressly prohibit or permit the selling and sharing of people’s data, but regulates the circumstances in which data sharing can take place. The ICO has published a statutory Code of Practice on data sharing which contains practical guidance for organisations on how to share data fairly and lawfully, and how to meet their accountability obligations. The Code is available <a href="https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/ico-codes-of-practice/data-sharing-a-code-of-practice/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>The ICO has a number of powers to tackle the unlawful processing of personal data, including the power to serve enforcement notices requiring organisations to stop the processing or to erase the data, and the power to serve civil monetary penalties. The ICO can also investigate and prosecute criminal offences under the DPA. Those guilty of such offences can be subject to unlimited fines in the courts.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 25/05/2022 08:50:03 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1462108

registered interest
date	11/05/2022
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	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, which data rights will be clarified by the Data Reform Bill, as announced in the Queen's Speech 2022.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>Now that we have left the EU, we have an opportunity to simplify the clunky parts of GDPR and create a world class data rights framework that will allow us to realise the benefits of data use while maintaining the UK’s high data protection standards.</p><p>The bill will contain measures from the ‘Data: A New Direction’ consultation document, and we will publish our response shortly. The bill will also make good on the government’s commitment to legislate for other policies in similar subject areas, such as increasing industry participation in Smart Data schemes and enabling digital identity-verification services.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 16/05/2022 08:27:35 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1461638

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
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	Staff: Surveillance
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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on protecting workers from intrusive monitoring, including monitoring eye movements and toilet breaks; and what protections employees have in respect of that monitoring.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>Employers are neither expressly permitted to monitor, nor are they prohibited from doing so. Monitoring by employers must not breach the duty of trust and confidence implied into an employee's contract of employment and must comply with the European Convention of Human Rights, Data Protection legislation and Equality Act 2010.</p><p>Organisations that process workers’ personal data for the purposes of monitoring their activities or surveillance must comply with the requirements of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (‘UK GDPR’) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (‘DPA’). This means that the data processing must be fair, lawful and transparent.</p><p>Any adverse impact of monitoring on individuals must be necessary, proportionate and justified by the benefits to the organisation and others. A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) would usually be required, particularly where the processing involves the use of new technologies, or the novel application of existing technologies. Where organisations are operating behavioural biometric identification techniques such as through keystroke analysis or gaze analysis (eye tracking) they would generally need to conduct a DPIA.</p><p>The UK GDPR and the DPA are administered and enforced independently of the government by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO publishes a range of advice and guidance for organisations on their data protection obligations including specific guidance for employers <a href="https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1064/the_employment_practices_code.pdf" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p>The ICO ran a call for views seeking stakeholder and public input into future guidance on data protection and employment practices and has published a summary of responses <a href="https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/ico-and-stakeholder-consultations/ico-call-for-views-on-employment-practices/" target="_blank">here</a>. The ICO is now acting on the feedback received and creating products that they will be consulting on and publishing on an iterative basis. The products will form a new, more user friendly hub of employment guidance.</p><p>Regular discussions are held across the government on all aspects of data protection.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 16/05/2022 08:29:40 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1461641

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
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: Safety
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 assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Online Safety Bill in ensuring that content moderators working for social media companies have adequate mental health support, regardless of their location.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will require social media companies to put in place appropriate content moderation systems to comply with their new statutory duties. It does not replace or duplicate existing employment or health and safety laws that may be relevant to companies’ obligations in regards to the health and wellbeing of their employees.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 16/05/2022 08:31:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah