Our consultation responses
January 2025
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
- Consultation commences on 17 December 2024 and will close on 25 February 2025.
- Briefing
- Consultation submission.
April 2024
Welsh government Consultation on “children missing education” Databases and Regulations for Local Authorities and Local Health Boards (2024)
- Link to consultation closing April 25, 2024
- Joint briefing with Home Ed Cymru [.pdf download April 16, 2024] v1.0
- Consultation submission [download April 25, 2024.pdf 221kB]
December 2023
Submission to the PACAC consultation: Transforming the UK’s Evidence Base View (TEB0028) html and download submission as .pdf
March 2022
Submission to the Keeping Children Safe in Education consultation (2022). Download our submission (241kB) .pdf.
November 2021
Submisison to the DCMS consultation Data: a new direction [download .pdf] 336 kB
September 2021
Submission to the Justice and Home Affairs Committee Inquiry New technologies and the application of the law [download .pdf 106kB]
May 2021
- Summary briefing on the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill narrowly on children, data and digital rights [download .pdf 121 kB]
- Briefing on the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill (joint led by Big Brother Watch) [download .pdf 161 kB]
- Submission to the PACAC Covid 19 Vaccine Certification Enquiry [download .pdf 82kB]
April 2021
- Submission to the EU Commission Consultation on combatting CSAM and child grooming
March 2021
- Submission to the Police consultation on a Code of Practice for Information and Records Management [download .pdf 225kB]
December 2020
- Submission to the National Data Strategy Consultation [download .pdf 468 kB]
November 2020
- Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the Draft General Comment on children in the digital environment [download. pdf 244 kB]
October 2020
- CRC LOIPR submission [download .pdf 834kB]
- Submission to the APPG on edTech call for evidence on what worked and didn’t in lockdown
June 2020
- Submission to the Education Select Committee related to the impact of Covid-19 on the digital environment in education [as published] [download .pdf 219 kB] and link to high level proposals [download .pdf 2.2MB] November 2019
April 2020
- Contribution from defenddigitalme to the EC evaluation of the GDPR (Article 97) [download 364kB]
July 2019
- Online Harms White Paper [download .pdf 306kB]
- Joint Committee on Human Rights Committee enquiry on the Right to Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital Revolution [download .pdfs submission 206kB and Annexes 365kB]
- National Data Strategy [background]
June 2019
- ICO Statutory Age Appropriate Code of Practice (Data Protection Act 2018) [download .pdf 1MB]
March 2019
- The National Data Guardian [NHS] [download .pdf 382 kB]
- The Information Commissioner Office consultation on FOI [download .pdf 276 kB]
October 2018
Digital government: Science and Technology Committee evidence [download .pdf 184 kB]
September 2018
- ICO Statutory Age Appropriate Code of Practice (Data Protection Act 2018) [download .pdf 722 kB]
- Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation [download .pdf 128 kB]
May 2017
GDPR derogations DCMS consultation: [download .pdf 586 kB]
February 2017
The Digital Economy Bill: on opening up the Civil Registry and bulk data for policy reasons. Why pupil data is the wrong model to copy. [download .pdf 256 kB] 07/03/2016
January 2017
National Citizen Service Bill committee stage response [download letter to committee .pdf 118 kB]
November 2016
- Technical and Further Education Bill committee stage response [defenddigitalme Response] .pdf 174kB
- The Digital Economy Bill and proposed pupil premium Clause 19 amendment [defenddigitalme Response]
September 2016
Higher Education and Research Bill committee stage response [defenddigitalme Response] .pdf 171kB
August 2016
Children and the Internet: [defenddigitalme_Response] [HOL committee] .pdf 237 kB
April 2016:
Better Data in Government: Cabinet Office Consultation Response [defenddigitalme Response .pdf 262kb]
February 2016
Keeping Children Safe in Education – Department for Education Consultation on Statutory Guidance September 2016 [defenddigitalme Response .pdf 121kb] specific to web monitoring proposals
December 2015
The Big Data Dilemma: the Science and Technology Committee Enquiry [defenddigitalme Response .pdf 139 kb]
The Big Data Dilemma: Enquiry publications and Report 2015-16