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12 February 2025

Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]: Second Reading

Summary

Long title

A bill to make provision about access to customer data and business data; to make provision about services consisting of the use of information to ascertain and verify facts about individuals; to make provision about the recording and sharing, and keeping of registers, of information relating to apparatus in streets; to make provision about the keeping and maintenance of registers of births and deaths; to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals; to make provision about privacy and electronic communications; to establish the Information Commission; to make provision about information standards for health and social care; to make provision about the grant of smart meter communication licences; to make provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery; to make provision about the retention of information by providers of internet services in connection with investigations into child deaths; to make provision about providing information for purposes related to the carrying out of independent research into online safety matters; to make provision about the retention of biometric data; to make provision about services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services; to make provision about the creation and solicitation of purported intimate images and for connected purposes.

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Bill

Bill 179 2024-25 (as brought from the Lords)
6 February 2025
Commons
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Explanatory notes

Bill 179 EN 2024-25
7 February 2025
Commons
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Amendment Papers

HL Bill 64-I Marshalled list for Third Reading
4 February 2025
Lords

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