The data protection act before it was not enforced and wildly broken by businesses as well. The law is always in at least two parts, the text as written and the

The data protection act before it was not enforced and wildly broken by businesses as well. The law is always in at least two parts, the text as written and the enforcement. If the enforcement is mostly via government funded bodies then one way a government can undermine that aspect of law is simply to under fund the public organisation and that has been happening throughout Europe with strongly right wing governments. Many of these organisations have not been effective since the data protection act was introduced. The law is reasonable but the enforcement doesn't function and never has.