23 January 2019
"The High Court has agreed to hear a campaign group's case against the UK's Data Protection Act, which they say leaves immigrants with fewer rights over their data."
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See: Campaigners get go-ahead to challenge exemption UK gave itself over immigrants' data (The Register, link):
"The sueball – lobbed by the Open Rights Group and EU citizens' group the3million – targets an exemption in the Act that was passed into law last May.
The groups want to remove this exemption from the Act, on the grounds that it is incompatible with the General Data Protection Regulation and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights."
And: What is at stake with the immigration exemption legal challenge? (Open Rights Group, link)
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