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> An employee familiar with the planned move said that British privacy rules, which at least for now track GDPR, would continue to apply to that government’s re
by dddbbb 7y ago
> An employee familiar with the planned move said that British privacy rules, which at least for now track GDPR, would continue to apply to that government’s requests for data from Google’s U.S. headquarters.
It quite literally says the opposite of that. I don't think Google could continue to do business in the UK if they just ignore regulation, nor could they ask users to waive their own rights.
All this seems to be is moving the location at which data-related requests for the UK are handled, which is probably because the Irish office is smaller and it is easier to keep them focussed solely on EU law.
- squiggleblaz 7y agoIt doesn't say the literal opposite of it. Your quote says "British privacy rules would continue to apply to [UK government] requests for data". This is very different from British privacy rules applying to private requests for data. Under the GDPR, and presumably British law, a private person can get a copy of your data and demand that it be deleted. According to your quote, there's no suggestion that will continue to be available. It may, or it may not, but it is not specified.