Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
Welcome to the total surveillance state
This opens the door to the total digital panopticon and the inevitable introduction of granular surveillance data and CBCDs, digital passports on blockchain, the sharing of data between the state and the corporations. Umm, where have we heard that before? Was it the Soviet Union, communist control grids, the iron fist of fascism? Ah, if only they had the powers corralled by the Brutish government in 2025.
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Giovanni Gentile
Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
Government Bill
Originated in the House of Lords, Session 2024-25
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.
[Now in the final stages]
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825
This advertising blurb makes it so cuddly; speeding up roadworks, faster access to the NHS, shopping comparisons…
British people will benefit from new laws which will make their day-to-day lives easier – from slashing grocery bills and cutting traffic jams to speeding up NHS diagnoses – as the government delivers on manifesto commitments.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-data-laws-will-make-life-easier-for-british-people-cutting-life-admin-easing-traffic-and-speeding-up-roadworks