Children’s Private Information: Data Protection Law Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Children’s Private Information: Data Protection Law

Baroness Chakrabarti Excerpts
Monday 12th December 2022

(1 year, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I am not sure that the Dispatch Box is the ideal place to go through the line-by-line analysis. The noble Lord is right that the way that the department’s contracts were set up at the time did not give the same recourse if the terms and conditions of a contract were breached by a third party. That has now been changed.

Baroness Chakrabarti Portrait Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab)
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My Lords, I find this whole saga staggering. It should give serious pause for thought to anyone who does not think that data protection and personal privacy matter. When the Minister replies in writing to the noble Lord’s earlier question about facial recognition technology, will she include in that response, and perhaps place a copy in the Library, an answer as to whether CCTV cameras on school premises are provided by Hikvision or any other Chinese companies?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I would be delighted to add that information.