BREAKING: Elizabeth Denham, @ICOnews information commissioner, has confirmed the @Conservatives broke the law by racially profiling 10m voters in 2019.

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/d4a948dd-b19a-4ece-adbe-8d84cfab09c5?in=11:19:48&out=11:20:28

Appearing at the @CommonsDCMS select committee, Denham insisted that the Conservative party had destroyed the data when her office recommended it, so that enforcement action was unnecessary.

But, she added: "We made the recommendation that they destroy the data because they didn't have the legal basis to collect it ... it was illegal to collect."

Denham made her admission under sustained questioning by SNP MP @MrJohnNicolson, based on an @ICOnews report published last November. @openDemocracy covered it at the time. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/conservative-party-racially-profiled-10-million-voters/

https://twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1354043958658260994?s=20

In December, John Whittingdale told parliament: "The Information Commissioner examined the practices of all political parties and made comments against all of them. However, it did not find that any breaches of the law had occurred." https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-12-10/debates/8B2096DB-D940-4BE7-ABFF-8C2F79F234A2/DataProtectionGDPRAndOtherEURegulations#contribution-DB28C8D5-3604-4181-8D3B-EC01C3D61843