Clause 152 of the Bill will permit an almost limitless range of data sharing pportunities both within government and between commercial organisations[...]
What's depressing about all this is the apparently total inability of civil servants to look after private data (which in my view shouldn't be on a laptop hard drive, or on a USB stick in the first place).
It's also darkly amusing that tomorrow, Wednesday 28th January, has been designated European Data Protection Day 2009. Ho hum, business as usual, then.