a lot of people think that the pandemic has led to a kind of massive data land grab by central government. how confident are you that that s necessary? data protection didn t stand in the way of the kind of reasonable public health surveillance measures that needed to be put in place. so we became very used to, um, a proximity app that was that was tracing and advising who we were coming in contact with. we got used to the idea of vaccine passports, which are important if you want to travel or attend live events. so we know that, on the other hand, the decommissioning of these systems. is something that we ll be looking at really carefully, and i m draughting a report to parliament on covid measures and the importance of decommissioning or ensuring that when these systems are no longer needed, they re not going to be fluid, are not going to be continued by the government.
those safeguards are now going to be enshrined in law, which a lot of people have put down as a big success for your office. what were you concerned about? and what will this work mean in practice? the mobile phone extraction investigation, and our work across the uk, is one of the most important files that i ve ever dealt with. when police forces started to require victims of sexual assault to upload everything on their mobile phones, put it in the hands of police and prosecutors, then that created a chill on women and men reporting sexual assault. and i think that was such a serious issue, so we needed to intervene and find a way to work with police so that their lines of inquiry had to be clear before they uploaded data from victims phones. a lot of people think that the pandemic has led to a kind of massive data landgrab by central government. how confident are you that that s necessary and proportionate? data protection didn t stand in the way of the kind of reasonable public hea
so that their lines of inquiry had to be clear before they uploaded data from victims phones. a lot of people think that the pandemic has led to a kind of massive data landgrab by central government. how confident are you that that s necessary and proportionate? data protection didn t stand in the way of the kind of reasonable public health surveillance measures that needed to be put in place. so, we became very used to a proximity app that was tracing and advising who we were coming in contact with, we got used to the idea of vaccine passports, which are important if you want to travel or attend live events, so we know that. on the other hand, the decommissioning of these systems is something that we ll be looking at really carefully. and i m drafting a report to parliament on covid measures and the importance of