https://techmonitor.ai/government-computing/data-protection-bill-digital-information-dwp-benefit-claimants

The government is set to hand itself new powers to regularly check the bank accounts of benefit claimants under proposed changes to the data protection and digital information bill, the UK's post-Brexit GDPR replacement.

An amended version of the bill will return to parliament next week. The government claims it will "allow the country to realise new post-Brexit freedoms while delivering new economic opportunities to the tune of £5.9 billion." But privacy campaigners - and some MPs - have raised concerns that the measures water down those protections currently afforded to UK citizens and businesses under GDPR.