{"id":18327,"date":"2025-04-01T21:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/data-protection-bill-leaves-room-for-governmental-abuse-campaigners-warn\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T21:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:37:32","slug":"data-protection-bill-leaves-room-for-governmental-abuse-campaigners-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/data-protection-bill-leaves-room-for-governmental-abuse-campaigners-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Data protection bill leaves room for governmental abuse, campaigners warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministerial revision of privacy rules could allow targeting of voters with political messaging, rights groups fear<\/p>\n<p>Privacy campaigners have warned that voters\u2019 personal data could be used to target them with political messaging under new laws.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter written to Chris Bryant, the data protection minister, and the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, campaigners said there was \u201cpotential for abuse of new powers\u201d in the data protection legislation, which was introduced to parliament at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/01\/data-privacy-campaigners-warn-of-henry-viii-powers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3d748c1e17e0b8489c53f1a37ef571ac05e27cf0\/0_261_6016_3610\/master\/6016.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=eb0633c20f2818778425c9dcc898bbce\" title=\"Data protection bill leaves room for governmental abuse, campaigners warn\" \/>Ministerial revision of privacy rules could allow targeting of voters with political messaging, rights groups fear<br \/>\nPrivacy campaigners have warned that voters\u2019 personal data could be used to target them with political messaging under new laws.<br \/>\nIn a letter written to Chris Bryant, the data protection minister, and the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, campaigners said there was \u201cpotential for abuse of new powers\u201d in the data protection legislation, which was introduced to parliament at the end of 2024. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministerial revision of privacy rules could allow targeting of voters with political messaging, rights groups fear Privacy campaigners have warned that voters\u2019 personal data could be used to target them with political messaging under new laws. In a letter written to Chris Bryant, the data protection minister, and the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, campaigners &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/data-protection-bill-leaves-room-for-governmental-abuse-campaigners-warn\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Data protection bill leaves room for governmental abuse, campaigners warn<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}