Sabot wrote:

  • accurate and kept up to date - data subjects have the right to have inaccurate personal data corrected or destroyed if the personal information is inaccurate to any matter of fact

If the TV licensing are counted as governmental (since they are in charge of enforcing TV license laws), then the government certainly don't comply with this one. Even when told multiple times that they are wrong, they will admit it but they won't correct it.

Sabot wrote:
  • not transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area - the EU plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein - that do not have adequate protection for individual's personal information, unless a condition from Schedule four of the Act can be met

As the ACLU are reporting the EU is sharing data with the US, despite the fact that they should not be giving people that data. The US may want that data, but they have no right to have it.

Sabot wrote:
So if the authorities will need a reason to examine you, they don't have the man-power to perform random inspections. So stay legal kids.

And don't listen to the Clash either.

On the plus side, I have complete faith in government incompetence, so they will never get laws lite this through. They've been suggested before and nothing's really happened, so I can't see much reason to think this is anything but politicians talking about something when they have nothing else to do.