Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps are being taken to ensure that cloud account holders who have given permission for their location data to be collected be given reminders every six months so that they have an opportunity to withdraw that permission.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The forthcoming Data Protection Bill will introduce a number of new rights and safeguards for individuals, including renewed rights on consent and the withdrawal of that consent, in particular circumstances. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recently published draft guidance on consent under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The draft guidance can be found at: https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/consultations/2013551/draft-gdpr-consent-guidance-for-consultation-201703.pdf
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps are being taken to ensure that all employers are aware that they cannot monitor employees' on-line services accounts covertly unless it is part of a lawful investigation in England and Wales.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Information Commissioner is the UK's independent authority responsible for administering and enforcing information rights and provides guidance and advice to individuals and organisations on, among other things, the protection of individual's data. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has produced guidance for employers on staff monitoring. This guidance can be found at:
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish a code of practice for providers of online social media platforms.
Answered by Matt Hancock
I refer the Hon Member to the response to PQ 4728.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has for the consultation on the code of practice for providers of online social media platforms to include provision for how such providers might co-operate fully with the police in the event that posted content might be criminal.
Answered by Matt Hancock
I refer the Hon Member to the response to PQ 4728.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, from whom will she seek contributions from for the consultation on the code of practice for social media providers.
Answered by Matt Hancock
I refer the Hon Member to the response to PQ 4728.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to include in the consultation on the code of practice for providers of online social media platforms reference to how that code might be updated periodically in the light of future technical developments.
Answered by Matt Hancock
I refer the Hon Member to the response to PQ 4728.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has for the consultation on the code of practice to be issued to providers of online social media platforms to include (a) hate conduct and (b) extremist content.
Answered by Matt Hancock
I refer the Hon Member to the response to PQ 4728.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish a code of practice for providers of online social media platforms.
Answered by Matt Hancock
I refer the Hon Member to the response to PQ 4728.
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the Government's policy is on whether a person should be permitted to install spyware or a webcam or any other device capable of capturing data covertly on another person's property or digital device without the user's agreement or without legal sanction in England and Wales.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Information Commissioner's Office's CCTV code of practice provides guidance and advice to CCTV users on how to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. The guidance can be found at https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1542/cctv-code-of-practice.pdf
Asked by: Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what mechanisms she plans to put in place to revise the code of practice for providers of online social media platforms to respond to future technical developments.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Digital Economy Act requires the Secretary of State, before issuing a code of practice, to consult social media providers to whom the code is intended to give guidance and such other persons as the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to consult. We will take forward this consultation as part of the Internet Safety Strategy.
The detail of what the code of practice will include will be decided following this consultation.