Plans to scrap existing UK data protection rules and replace them with an altogether new regime are on the horizon following recommendations made by a special taskforce commissioned by the prime minister. The taskforce, comprising three senior Conservative MPs, has branded GDPR “prescriptive and inflexible” and has urged Boris Johnson to replace the rules with a new framework for data protection that doesn’t stifle growth and innovation. https://www.itpro.co.uk/policy-legislation/data-protection/359915/government-to-consider-gutting-gdpr-rules Yesterday, on June 16, the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform published a report outlining their vision to “refresh the UK’s approach to regulation now that we have left the EU”. What’s being presented as an “independent report” has been written by a taskforce of three conservative MPs, selected by a conservative Prime Minister to advise a conservative Government in the pursuit of their deregulatory agenda. Yet, the Report is significant, because it signals the Government’s desire to gut GDPR and your privacy rights. Some of these suggestions are likely to appear as policy proposals in the near future. Open Rights Group reviewed their proposal to “Replace GDPR with a new UK framework for data protection”: it is only six pages, but riddled with blatant lies and an obtuse interpretation of the few facts presented to bless potential Government proposals. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/stand-up-for-privacy/
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