“British ministers have taken to Twitter and television to tout a new UK consultation document on ‘proposed changes to the UK’s data landscape’ which would aim to ‘remov[e] barriers to responsible data sharing and use’, according to the government’s press release. By ‘barriers’ the UK means the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). When it was a member of the European Union, the UK, as required, transposed GDPR into British law. Now that it isn’t in the EU, it would like an alternative, with possible parameters set forth in the consultation document entitled Data: a New Direction …” (more)
[Karlin Lillington, Irish Times, 16 September]
First posted 2021-09-16 09:00:56
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