New law could criminalise uncovering personal data abuses, advocate warns
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#2Z6RV)
Data protection bill would cripple researchers uncovering abuses of personal data while doing nothing to stop the spread of poorly anonymised data
A new law proposed to protect the privacy of British internet users could end up criminalising the only people working to uncover abuses of personal data, a leading privacy researcher has warned.
The new data protection bill will contain a clause making it a criminal offence to "intentionally or recklessly re-identify individuals from anonymised or pseudonymised data". The maximum penalty under the new law would be an unlimited fine.
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