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Permanent Data Opacity for Appointments

This provision completely removes individuals' rights to access, correct, or erase personal data processed for judicial appointment assessments and national honours decisions. Unlike proportionate exemptions that protect deliberative confidentiality during active evaluations, this creates permanent opacity—individuals can never know what data influenced these high-stakes decisions, even after they're made. This prevents candidates from correcting inaccurate information that may prejudice their suitability assessment and contradicts the bill's core principle that individuals own their personal data. The blanket exemption lacks temporal limitations or safeguards against arbitrary decision-making based on incorrect information.