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Comment on UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR

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This translates to: "We are not going to require consent for data collection."

Which would lead to data portability issues with the EU. A number of companies I deal with have decided to host their data in the EU (even for UK source data) as a result of Brexit.

Um, it doesn't have too...

Why not start with re-reading existing consumer data protection law? I bet there's stuff in there that can be applied and reworked.

We need it to be appropriately scary for companies to abuse data.

Well, you'll be able to hear the shrieking from here if Britain is ruled not to have an adequate data protection regime.

The EU basically doesn't enforce the regulation against the US because we're too big a software partner for the rules to apply. I wouldn't bet the UK is going to get the same realpolitik exception.

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