The Coroners and Justice Bill is currently going through Parliament. The most outrageous part in this Bill is Clause 152, which would allow any Minister by order to take any information gathered for one purpose from anywhere, and use it for any other purpose.

Your information, your family’s information, arbitrarily used without your consent or even knowledge. This is the very reverse of ‘Data Protection’.

An ‘Information Sharing Order’, as defined in Clause 152, would permit your information to be trafficked and abused, not only all across government and the public sector – it would also reach into the private sector. And it would even allow transfer of information across international borders.

Write to your MP – www.WriteToThem.com makes it very easy – and tell him or her that you ‘refuse consent to having your information shared under any information sharing order‘, and ask him or her to vote to have Clause 152 removed entirely from the Coroners and Justice Bill.

You can also join the Facebook group and help spread the word by inviting everyone you know to it.

NO2ID have prepared this briefing on the Coroners and Justice Bill (republished here with permission):
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