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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

UK data bill favours big business and ‘shady’ tech firms, rights group claims

Caroline Lucas speaking in parliament
Caroline Lucas, seen speaking in parliament last month, used a subject access request to find out that she had been flagged by a government disinformation unit. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/PA

Individuals’ control over and access to their data is being undermined by a post-Brexit bill that favours big business and “shady” technology companies, a digital rights group has claimed.

The data protection and digital information bill includes changes to rules on subject access requests (SARs), which allow an individual to ask an organisation for copies of personal information that it holds about them, and automated decision-making.

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