New data powers ‘could allow DWP to snoop on pensioners’ bank accounts’
Ministers have faced questions about whether new data powers could be used to snoop into the bank accounts of state pensioners.
Conservative former minister David Davis claimed that measures aimed at tackling fraud in the benefit system within the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill would allow the state to “put people under surveillance without prior suspicion”.
The Bill seeks to create a new data rights regime for the UK after its exit from the European Union.
But across the Commons raised the alarm about
