…of why the individual needs to be actively in control of their personal data (BBC News)
Up to 800,000 people on the UK donor register may have had their wishes about the use of organs for transplant wrongly recorded.
The Labour Manifesto (in section 9.5 Public services in the digital age) says:
We will explore how to give citizens direct access to the data held on them…
The Conservative manifesto includes the following principle:
Wherever possible, we believe that personal data should be controlled by individual citizens themselves.