U.K. Plans New Post-Brexit Privacy Rules to Ease Data Sharing – The Wall Street Journal
The U.K. government plans to relax its privacy rules and strike new data transfer agreements with the U.S. and other countries in a move to reform data regulations since leaving the European Union last year.
New British data protection rules would differ from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, according to the government’s proposal published Thursday. The nature of those changes will be crucial for determining whether the U.K. can maintain a separate data agreement completed in June with the EU that requires British privacy standards remain equivalent to the union’s rules. U.K. officials will have the tricky task of balancing the legal changes with the requirements for remaining within EU guidelines.
The U.K. government said the new privacy rules will be innovation-friendly and allow for easier data-sharing while eliminating “box-ticking” measures from the EU rules. British Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the Telegraph newspaper that the EU GDPR requires websites to display onerous banners asking for consent to track visitors’ data.
A revised approach to data sharing would help develop better scientific and technology research, the U.K. proposal said, referring to the country’s public healthcare database of hospital p
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