Remember GDPR's Article 27? Well, you might have to after Brexit happens.
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.
Turns out the UK government, under current prime minister Rishi Sunak, is not replacing the GDPR, as Michelle Donelan, his secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, implied last October.
Meta Platforms Inc. will begin moving its UK users away from the company’s Irish subsidiary and onto US agreements in a move the social-media giant flagged post-Brexit.
If the UK cannot meet European Union standards, it will become a global data pariah.
A CROSS-party group of MPs has condemned the Government for refusing to spell out the privacy risks in the proposed UK-Japan trade agreement.
‘Current restrictions on European data to stop lightly regulated transfers to the USA, would disappear’
EU court ruling threatens EU-UK data flows
06/10/2020
UK mass surveillance laws have been ruled illegal under EU rules. / A ruling by the EU's top court Tuesday morning dealt a serious blow to the prospect of digital information being able to flow freely across the Channel after Brexit.
Proposed rewriting of data protection rules said to put vital cooperation in doubt.
Faculty, linked to senior Tories, hired to collect tweets as part of coronavirus-related contract.
The move protects the data of EU citizens, but it is unclear how it will affect the UK after Brexit.
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'.
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.
Home Office presides over 100 data breaches in administration of EU settlement scheme, says watchdog
27/02/2020
EU nationals’ passports lost and ID cards sent to wrong addresses in ‘concerning’ data breaches, report finds
Brexit prompts tech firm to move data and user accounts of British users from EU to US.
Brian Toohey, of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America trade group, spearheads PhRMA and recently told of the US drugs industry's predatory intentions.
The investigation found that the firm violated both the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the provincial Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA).
A post-Brexit deal should make it easier to build supermarkets, avoid tax and sue the UK, US business lobbyists say.
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office is questioning the UK government about the collection of personal data on its Gov.uk platform. / The data would feed into Brexit preparations, it added.
Boris Johnson Secretly Asked For A Massive Amount Of User Data To Be Tracked. Dominic Cummings Said It's "TOP PRIORITY"
10/09/2019
Leaked documents show the prime minister's chief adviser emailed senior officials instructing them: "We must get this stuff finalised ASAP".
MEPs have the power to approve, amend or reject nearly all EU legislation. / So what have they achieved in this five-year term?