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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, this is more important than people may realise—particularly the last part about providing technical data. The reason is that we have seen cases in the past where large companies, in trying to protect positions where their electronic security provisions are supposed to be totally infallible, have not given complete information to the bodies that are trying to adjudicate on them. Some information given by banks to the financial services ombudsman springs to mind. There is a report from the Security Group at Cambridge covering the issue, if people want to look it up. It is very important that the technical data are correct and full and easily examined, because there will not be a lot of technical expertise on the tribunals. The problem is getting the stuff into a form that is really watertight. That has not always happened in the past.