The publication of the UK’s proposals to reform UK data protection law – Data: a new direction – and the appointment of John Edwards as the new Information Commissioner, indicate a new era for data regulation in the UK.
This provides opportunities for the UK to position itself as a global pioneer by implementing a regulatory system underpinned by sound principles that can both flex as new technologies emerge and maintain high levels of trust in the public.
Last week we participated in a techUK Talks session at London Tech Week with other leading data experts to consider the key points in these reforms and the potential pitfalls ahead, including the implications for the EU’s data adequacy finding for the UK.
Watch Richard Cumbley, global head of our TMT practice, share his thoughts on these issues.
“At the moment the UK is caught between two competing big issues. On the one hand we have just achieved an important economic upside in the form of an adequacy finding from the EU, making it really seamless for us to deal in data terms with the EU. On the other hand, we have the concept of a Brexit dividend - can we find a better way to regulate data and to liberate some freedoms in the economy whilst still maintaining that adequacy finding?”
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