Why on earth is our government refusing to adopt what appears to be the most sensible piece of EU law I’ve heard of in a long time?

As France is promoting Paris as Europe’s next financial capital and Germany’s Berlin is seeking to attract Britain’s tech talent, here are seven consequences, challenges and opportunities for Malta's economy following the Brexit vote.

With a potential no-deal Brexit looming, there's one lesser-known industry that could be impacted: data sharing. Plenty of businesses aren't aware of the huge change that may be coming.

The EU has opposed brutal animal welfare and rampant tech monopolies. Post-Brexit Britain will be exposed to both.

This site tracks updates and developments on the UK’s implementation or adaptation of specific European policies, regulations, and laws impacting the digital and tech industries throughout the Brexit transition.

The UK has identified nearly 4,000 EU laws and regulations which we are now “free from”. What have we done with these newfound freedoms?

Hermann Houser says Britain has no chance of being technologically independent after leaving the EU.

In this video, Hugh Lawson-Tancred discusses the challenges posed by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He concludes that, while the risks and dangers of AI are often exaggerated, international cooperation, particularly regional cooperation will be necessary to ensure that the maximum benefits of AI are obtained and equitably distributed.

We knew leaving the EU would weaken us. Now we can see it will limit the ability of the government to rein in big tech.

From the man who brought us the garden bridge and water cannons

It’s striking how similar the ongoing national embarrassment is to screwing up software.

The Pool firm is considering opening up a new branch in Barcelona rather than the UK if a No Deal Brexit becomes reality.

THE UK's decision to break away from the EU cost service exports more than £110 billion over a four-year period, new research has shown.

Warning that crisis will ‘get worse as businesses see that there is not much going on in UK-EU negotiations’.

The country’s decision to leave the European Union has left many in the local tech community questioning the place of the U.K. — and their own — in the global digital economy.

Supply chain issues, skills shortages, increased costs and red tape among the issues cited.

He said Brexit has made attracting talent “substantially more difficult”. / A partner in a brand new $1bn venture capital fund has warned that London risks losing its status as a global tech hub as Brexit has made attracting talent “substantially more difficult”.

Sup joins many other UK startups impacted by Brexit.

"From 30 March 2019, 00:00:00 CET, EURid will NOT allow the registration of any new domain name where the registrant country code is either GB/GI."

"Would London lose out to Barcelona or Berlin or Stockholm or Amsterdam? The answer to those questions is a resounding "yes." Even smaller European tech hubs are taking talent out of London."

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An analysis of the total cost to U.K. businesses if the country fails to gain an adequacy agreement from the European Commission once it leaves the bloc at the end of the year — creating barriers to inbound data flows from the EU — suggests the price in pure compliance terms could be between £1 billion and £1.6 billion.

Britain led the first industrial revolution, but Europe will lead the next.

Brexit is having a negative impact on business, according to almost half of UK IT leaders questioned in a Computing Delta study.

Chief exec of BT’s Openreach has said the UK’s ability to roll out superfast broadband has become increasingly difficult because of “tortuous” recruitment hurdles as a result of Brexit.

IT job postings in the UK are being battered by Brexit and the lingering uncertainty of leaving the EU without a Withdrawal Agreement on 31 October.

Shona Campbell, insolvency partner at business advisory and accountancy firm Henderson Loggie, has been appointed as liquidator of Holoxica, the holographic 3D visualisation company. / "Global supply chain issues, changes in trading conditions because of Brexit and the pandemic have created cashflow challenges for the company," the liquidator said.

Businesses without an EU postal address will no longer be able to own an .eu domain name following Brexit. It’s time to take action, and here are the steps you need to take.

The European Union will spend one billion euros ($1.2 billion) to try to catch up to China, the U.S. and Japan in supercomputing, the European Commission said Thursday. But as the initiative launches, uncertainty over Brexit is creating anxiety among British computer scientists that the U.K. may miss out on opportunities from the plan.

Big tech firms face yearly checks on how they are tackling illegal and harmful content under new rules unveiled by the European Commission.

Experts have today partially blamed post-Brexit uncertainty for helping France pip the UK to Europe’s investment hub crown for the second year in a row.

Almost 40% of surveyed firms have opened offices outside the UK, the majority in the EU. / UK FinTech firms who predicted in 2018 that they would partly relocate their UK operations to the European Union after Brexit have largely followed through with their plans, according to new research published today in the journal Advances in Economic Geography.

Department for International Trade says tech companies should have the right ‘cultural fit’ if they want to be hired.

Brexit will hurt UK interactive entertainment and the wider creative and tech industries - our detailed analysis and our discussions with our stakeholders has shown that clearly.

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 CEO of a Berlin-based secure messaging and collaboration platform says Brexit could pose a cybersecurity challenge for the UK.

The role of the London Stock Exchange as a hub for global share trading is changing following the U.K.’s exit from the European Union.

One of Britain's success stories is taking a direct hit from Brexit and its impact on labour.

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.

PSA Part’s Sales Director, Nick Walsh looks at how Brexit is impacting cross European border trade for the tech channel and how companies can look to address these challenges.

A review of evidence about opportunities, challenges and risks to the North East economy and its key sectors with recommendations for action.

The announcement this week by culture secretary Michelle Donelan that the UK plans to replace GDPR with its own “business and consumer-friendly British data protection system” is bad news.

The value of sterling against the dollar has fallen by about 18 per cent since the UK voted to leave the EU in June.

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.

Sajid Javid says existing technology can solve the Irish border problem - there are no examples of borders with the EU where technology has eliminated the need for any physical checks though.

ICAEW tells MPs there could be ‘systemic’ impact on economic confidence if UK crashes out. / Britain’s next prime minister will take charge of an economy beginning to falter, as Brexit uncertainty and the mounting risk of a no deal scenario serve as a brake on growth, according to a Guardian analysis.

The Netherlands has lured 140 Brexit-wary companies since the 2016 referendum to quit the EU, it was claimed on Wednesday.

The regulator is planning to determine whether the UK’s net neutrality framework, passed in 2015 under the EU’s Open Internet Regulation, needs to be adjusted to the current environment.

Ofcom is looking for public responses to a report which suggests eroding net neutrality by allowing ISPs to provide more premium services. Responses can be made up to January 13th.

OSI welcomes the Decision of the European Commission on the open source licensing and reuse of Commission software. The December 8 Decision means that Commission services may choose to make Commission software available under open source licenses, something OSI has long advocated and which opens great opportunities both for individuals and companies.

Boris Johnson thinks he’s got a deal. Arlene Foster isn’t so sure. Nobody knows what’s in the deal – but some of the ERG think it’ll pass the Commons anyway. The Remainiacs team gather to work out what we know, what we don’t know… and what we think will be put before Parliament on Saturday.

Diversity efforts across the UK’s tech industry were significantly derailed by the fallout of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research by Tech London Advocates (TLA).

It's now been five years since the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, and six months since it actually left.

Warm weather, fast internet and a specially designed visa are just some of the incentives Spanish authorities are hoping will attract Britons to return after being blocked by Brexit restrictions.

Startup Europe strengthens networking opportunities for deep tech scaleups and ecosystem builders to accelerate the growth of the European startup scene.

Here you will find a central meeting point for startups in Europe to access all the information they need to grow and thrive in Europe. / Startup Europe is an initiative of the European Commission, which falls under its priority of the ‘Digital Single Market’.

Sunak boasts of the UK as a leader in technology. He does not remind us that Brexit eroded our position.

IT specialist from former Yugoslavia says he didn’t want to be ‘trapped on an island descending into mindless tribalism’. / A tech developer with a successful London e-learning company has said he has already quit Britain after 10 high-flying years because of the uncertainty and “mindless tribalism” caused by Brexit.

UK tech & innovation leaders want a people's vote on the terms of Brexit

EU departure is hitting staffing and triggering animosity to European employees.

The European Union’s (EU) Chips Act was agreed in principle at the end of April 2023 by the EU’s main political bodies. The proposed legislation, described by European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, as a “game changer”, commits €43 billion in financial subsidies towards expanding the bloc’s semiconductor industry.

Those tasked with fixing the millennium bug reject the idea that it was a load of hysteria over nothing.

You may wonder why on earth a Tory government led by Boris Johnson, the heirs to Thatcher for goodness sake, are sacrificing the prospect of a trade deal with the EU because they want the right to subsidise British industry.

Developers and publishers discuss the challenges they face in securing talent from the Continent

In 11 key policy areas, POLITICO reporters look ahead to March 30, 2019.

A post-Brexit deal should make it easier to build supermarkets, avoid tax and sue the UK, US business lobbyists say.

The technology field will be hurt by the Data Bill and the breakdown of Horizon.

JAMES BALL examines the areas where Britain is now feeling the painful consequences of its departure from the EU.

Digital services levy due to be imposed on web-based firms like Facebook and Amazon from April.

The Trump administration has made it clear to Boris Johnson that any post-Brexit US-UK free trade deal would rely on Britain dropping plans to tax large American tech firms, according to reports.

Soaring energy costs and the continued fallout from the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union have had a major impact on that country’s private/hybrid cloud data center outsourcing market.

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” .

Carolyn Fairbairn of CBI says her ‘really big disappointment’ was the lack of help for British services in the potential deal

The UK government has launched a scaleup visa for businesses to sponsor high-skill tech workers for a two-year stay to encourage more talent into the country and plug the digital skills gap.

Ofcom, the UK regulator, is going to give the UK’s net neutrality regs a once-over - presumably in response to telco and ISP urgings on the subject of “Now we’re not in the EU we shouldn’t have to obey EU laws.” Always a favourite. / In fact UK voices were at the forefront of the original discussion - urging pro network neutrality measures on the EU back in the mid noughties.

The UK's lead in technology will be undermined if we can't trade across cyber borders.

A no-deal Brexit is looming, and could spell grave uncertainty for many working in the UK's tech industry.

A project manager’s disdain at chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s speech to Bloomberg's city HQ – ‘the UK will soon probably need to start offering its own nomad visa just to get people to come here,’ probably resonated with many IT contractors.

The government is proposing to remove EU-era regulatory protections that enable people to challenge the decisions algorithms make about them.

Welche Regionen in der EU eignen sich besonders als Standort für Hochtechnologie? Während viele Städte und Gemeinden in Deutschland ihre Position verbessern konnten, könnte mit Großbritannien ein wichtiger Wettbewerber künftig entfallen. Der Brexit bietet Chancen - für Regionen in Ungarn, Polen und in Nordeuropa.

This article examines the relationship between zero-rating and net neutrality in light of the latest case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, namely the Vodafone case (Case C-854/19). The aim is to determine whether the UK should follow the EU’s example in banning zero-rating practices as seen in Vodafone.

The “idiocy” of Brexit is partially to blame for one of the UK's largest tech firms choosing to list on the New York Stock Exchange over London, the company's co-founder has warned.

Hundreds voice dismay at Sunak and Starmer, accusing them of misreading UK attitudes towards Europe.