UK Parliament / Open data

Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Amendment) Regulations 2019

My Lords, to reinforce that point, government actually has all this data, which demonstrates who people are and where they live, but it has not yet been pulled together. The question that we have to discuss as part of the broader issue of government data management is precisely how, with guarantees on privacy et cetera, that can and should be done. We all know that Google now knows much more about us than do the Government—it probably knows how often I breathe per minute. It is important that, on a cross-party basis in the next Parliament, we discuss how we might take government towards a system which would allow conveniently for automatic registration.

1.15 pm

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Reference

800 c1032 

Session

2019-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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