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EU: UK government Briefing to Members of the European Parliament: A comprehensive approach on personal data protection in the EU

01 April 2011

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EU: UK government Briefing to Members of the European Parliament: A comprehensive approach on personal data protection in the EU (pdf)

"The UK Government remains concerned that the effect of increasing the number of categories of sensitive personal data could be that some existing ‘routine’ processing would be subject to unnecessary higher safeguards.... The UK Government has further concerns in relation to the amendment to the IMCO Committee’s Opinion on giving individuals the right to be informed (subject access) free of charge about data collected about them and believes that a discretionary fee or nominal charge acknowledges the costs to organisations and helps to deter vexatious requests...

The UK Government has concerns about the proposals relating to the collection and processing of children and minors’ personal data as proposed in amendments to the CULT Committee’s Opinion, including making school pupils’ personal data subject to explicit consent and the prohibition of collection of children’s sensitive data... The UK Government is concerned about strengthening and harmonising the status and powers of national data protection authorities merely on the basis of their deterrent value."

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