Elizabeth Denham reflects on her five years as Information Commissioner in her final speech delivered to the BCS. In September 2016, Brexit had just happened, the GDPR had not yet taken effect. Her office employed fewer the 500 staff compared to the 800 it does today. It was a time before COVID too. While some things have changed, others remain the same, including a key message from a speech in 2016, "organisations should not be thinking about privacy or innovation, but about privacy and innovation." Concerning the DCMS public consultation, Ms Denham said this is well-timed as the "opportunities of digital innovation rely on trust in the law, and how we deliver those high standards cannot be static. We've spoken already of the changes just in the past five years." However, she went on to say that she is "deeply concerned about any changes to the data protection regime that would remove the centrality of fairness in how people’s data is used," she goes as far as saying the TIGGR proposal to remove the right to human review of automated decisions represents a backwards step in terms.
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