Quoting the article on BoingBoing:
Hidden in the new Coroners and Justice Bill is one clause (cl.152) amending the Data Protection Act. It would allow ministers to make ‘Information Sharing Orders’, that can alter any Act of Parliament and cancel all rules of confidentiality in order to use information obtained for one purpose to be used for another.
NO2ID have the following to say:
Make no mistake, this is the Bill to build the database state.
I guess it’s time to write to my MP again…