Brexit prompts tech firm to move data and user accounts of British users from EU to US.
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 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.
Proposed rewriting of data protection rules said to put vital cooperation in doubt.
‘Current restrictions on European data to stop lightly regulated transfers to the USA, would disappear’
Safeguards over data, pay and conditions, GM foods, hedge funds and disposal of old vehicles should all be binned, Daniel Hannan says.
Tory peer urges Boris Johnson to scrap EU worker and environmental protections now Brexit is done
07/01/2021
A Tory peer recently ennobled by Boris Johnson has urged the prime minister to remove EU consumer and worker protections now that Brexit has happened.
The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has flagged up concerns regarding the impact the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) will have on the online gambling industry.
Uncertainty looms over UK’s post-Brexit data protection position: What CISOs should do now
22/04/2021
As the UK’s long-term data protection adequacy status is assessed in Brussels, UK organisations should take steps to ensure GDPR compliance regardless of the EU’s decision.
Use Brexit to grow GM crops, bring back imperial measurements and scrap GDPR, taskforce urges
15/06/2021
The newly created Taskforce for Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform has identified more than 100 ‘Brexit dividends’.
JAMES BALL examines the areas where Britain is now feeling the painful consequences of its departure from the EU.
Hyperforce data sovereignty comes to France and Germany, but Brexit Britain must wait its turn
21/09/2021
Salesforce is extending its Hyperforce data sovereignty offering to the European Union (EU), but Brexit Britain won’t be part of the program until next year despite being the firm’s second largest market outside of the US.
If the UK cannot meet European Union standards, it will become a global data pariah.
Fears of another A-level-style fiasco as scrutiny of policies made by computer are ditched following Brexit
10/02/2022
‘We all remember the A-levels fiasco, when an algorithm decided what results should be... the poorest students received worse marks’ / “Human review” of decisions made by computer algorithms will be quietly axed under a bonfire of EU laws, MPs have been warned – risking a repeat of the 2020 “A-levels fiasco”.
“Changing data protection law is very central to the government’s post-Brexit policy. We all remember the A-levels fiasco in 2020."
Brexit has had an immeasurable impact on all aspects of UK society, and data centers are no exception. Supply chain continuity has already been damaged, and there is a growing demand for data sovereignty.
Speak to any business owner in 2018 and their biggest headache was getting to grips with changes in data protection law. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) shone a light on how businesses handled information about employees and customers.
Show us that benefits outweigh the cost, BCS challenges government.
Brexit split with EU over personal data risks harm to UK business and security, report warns
07/08/2022
Proposals ‘driven by desire to show benefit from Brexit’.
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.
Brexit has finally paid off. Leaving the EU was all worth it. We should all thank the architects of the policy and clap them on the back.
UK government to ditch GDPR in favour of post-Brexit system in potential headache for industry
04/10/2022
UK government to ditch GDPR in favour of post-Brexit system in potential headache for industry DCMS head Michelle Donelan promises to do away with red tape as Labour MP labels move “madness” .
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.
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.