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Why won't the UK get those new laws? Now that Britain has Brexited it needs to make a trade deal with the US. Why won't the US insist on things like lesser dat
by clouddrover 7y ago
Why won't the UK get those new laws?
Now that Britain has Brexited it needs to make a trade deal with the US. Why won't the US insist on things like lesser data protections and software patents as part of the trade deal? Now that Britain is in a weaker bargaining position, how will it avoid implementing these things?
- shawabawa3 7y agoit might, in fact it's even likely. However it hasn't happened yet, so we don't know. What we do know is that there will need to be an act of parliament and we won't just magically lose protections at some arbitrary date
- M2Ys4U 7y agoIt happened a year ago! On the 28th February 2019 The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019[0] was made. These Regulations basically patch the GDPR to remove the buts about working with supervisory authorities in the EU, changes the references to supervisory authorities to name the Information Commissioner, confers power on the Secretary of State instead of the Commission and stuff like that. The substantive provisions of the GDPR remain unchanged. There's what's known as a "Keeling Schedule" (which is essentially a visual diff of the changes) available as well.[1] [0] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/419/introduction/made https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/419/introduction/ma... [1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/779335/Keeling_Schedule_for_GDPR.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...