12 February 2020
"The United Kingdom will seek to diverge from EU data protection rules and establish their own ‘sovereign’ controls in the field, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday (3 February)."
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UK to diverge from EU data protection rules, Johnson confirms(EurActiv, link):
"His comments came despite the EU affirming that the UK should “fully respect EU data protection rules.”
In a written statement to the House of Commons published yesterday, the Prime Minister said that the United Kingdom will “develop separate and independent policies” in a range of fields, including data protection, adding that the government would seek to maintain high standards in so doing."
And see: Brexit and GDPR (Law Gazette, link):
"Brexit has finally been ‘done’ but what can we data protection lawyers look forward to? Can we bin the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) along with our red EU passports?
The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 were made in February last year to deal with post-Brexit data protection in the UK. Some of the 61 pages of regulations, which deal mainly with consequential amendments, came into force on 29 March 2019. The main provisions came into force on ‘exit day’ (31 January 2020). The implications of the regulations will not be felt until the end of the Brexit transition period (currently 31 December 2020). Until then, EU GDPR will apply as though the UK was still part of the EU. Unless the transition period is extended (which at present seems unlikely) a revision of GDPR, known as the ‘UK GDPR’, will come into force on 1 January 2021."
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