Showing:
◈ data protection×
Intelligence will always be exchanged informally. The problem is turning such exchanges into evidence that can be used in court – especially when we’re shut out of European information networks.
The UK’s Data Dilemma
20/03/2021
But this leaves the U.K. with a large data elephant in the room. What happens if the UK awards an adequacy decision to a country which does not have an adequacy decision with the EU?
‘Current restrictions on European data to stop lightly regulated transfers to the USA, would disappear’
Leaked German government report shows Britain has been requesting special access. / Britain wants to ‘approximate the position of a member state as closely as possible’ when it comes to working with Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency, the leaked report states.
Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, sources said.
The technology field will be hurt by the Data Bill and the breakdown of Horizon.
The move protects the data of EU citizens, but it is unclear how it will affect the UK after Brexit.
Exchange of key security information at risk after Dutch concerns over data protection.
UK could lose right to share security and business data with EU after Brexit, minister admits
16/06/2020
Alternatives 'might need to be pursued', James Brokenshire tells inquiry - prompting demands to reveal how UK will be 'protected'.
Judge rules Data Protection Act clause denying them right to obtain records is not unlawful.
Proposed rewriting of data protection rules said to put vital cooperation in doubt.
Brexit prompts tech firm to move data and user accounts of British users from EU to US.
A minister and a former Conservative MP have asked the information watchdog to investigate whether Boris Johnson’s campaign to become party leader is breaching data protection laws.
Critics argue change will make it easier for users to be subject to surveillance.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has for the second time struck down an agreement between the EU and US which facilitates the transfer of data from Europe to the United States and which permits the US intelligence services to access such data for national security reasons.
Brexit dividend? 'Newly independent' UK will be world's 'data hub', claims digital minister
06/10/2022
Amid inevitable talk of 'red tape' cutting at ruling party conference, data protection experts are concerned.
Brexit will hit trade in services between the Republic and UK irrespective of the outcome of current talks, according to all-island professional body Chartered Accountants Ireland.
Opposition to the retained EU law bill is mounting, as the government discovers the importance and popularity of EU law.
The revised version of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill has had its second reading in Parliament as the government presses on with post-Brexit changes, but critics remain sceptical that the EU will be convinced to maintain the UK's data adequacy agreement.
Not evident in the statement is the inconvenient fact that diverging too far from the EU’s data protection regime — the General Data Protection Directive — could have consequences for UK businesses which regularly share data with units based in the EU or its economic area.
Dorries et al are not wrong on the value of data to the economy, the trouble it’s less clear what they think exactly is so broken with GDPR, and just seem to think it’s a given that removing some of its processes will automatically result in billions of pounds of growth for businesses and the country.
Is a big British version of GDPR likely to balance the demands of consumers, advertisers and media owners alike? We ask marketers what they think of the UK’s planned divergence.
Concerns raised over government drive to implement distinct post-Brexit policy. / Legal experts say UK government plans to create new data protection laws will make more work and add costs for business, while also creating the possibility of challenges to data sharing between the EU and UK.
Further amendments to the replacement for GDPR are likely, DCMS official says.