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My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State

for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to an Urgent Question in another place. The Statement is as follows:

“Mr Speaker, the revelations...

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Lord Ashton of Hyde (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
19 March 2018
Reference
790 cc74-6
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his constructive remarks. I too pay tribute to the Guardian and the journalists who worked on this. Certainly they have exposed questions to answer but we will have to see what the ICO comes up with in its investigation, and it is...

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Lord Ashton of Hyde (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
19 March 2018
Reference
790 cc76-7
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I want to put on the record that we absolutely agree with the noble Baroness that if these allegations—and at the moment they are allegations—are correct, that will be truly shocking. The new Data Protection Bill will bring forward stronger enforcement powers, and, as we have said, we...

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Lord Ashton of Hyde (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
19 March 2018
Reference
790 c77
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House of Lords

I have to give a short answer to what is an extremely difficult question. I certainly agree with the noble Baroness that there are more questions to answer than simply those about data protection in the fairly broad confines of the Data Protection Bill. Of course, the data ethics and...

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Lord Ashton of Hyde (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
19 March 2018
Reference
790 c78
House
House of Lords

I am not sure that I agree with the premise of the latter part of the noble Lord’s question. Nevertheless, he makes a sensible point about the Electoral Commission, which is, I believe, a Cabinet Office responsibility. I cannot confirm whether the Electoral Commission is currently conducting the investigation that...

Member
Lord Ashton of Hyde (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
19 March 2018
Reference
790 c78
House
House of Lords

Lords statement on the alleged breach of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica and the powers of the Information Commissioner to act in such cases.

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Lord Ashton of Hyde
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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Type
Ministerial statements
Date
19 March 2018
Reference
790 cc74-8
House
House of Lords