Share What They Know?
Barely a without the revelation that someone, somewhere has reams of . It's a subject that causes and political embarrassment. Yet, despite who gets to share what, iPM has been looking at fresh concerns that information about us is being shared, more widely and without proper safeguards.
We are grateful to the from bringing this to our attention. It concerns a provsion within the that allows our personal, financial and medical records with the in effort to fight fraud. For it's a
A Home Office spokesperson told iPM:
"Fraud costs the UK at least £13.9bn a year. It is in all our interests to prevent it. We believe that the data sharing provisions under the Serious Crime Act 2007 will help the public sector to ensure that taxpayer's money is not taken out of the system fraudulently without infringing the rights of the individual. All the requirements of the Data Protection Act will continue to apply".
Eddie has been speaking to Ben Summers from the and
is a solicitor advocate based in Leeds and a former legal adviser to .
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