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• @oliverdowden Oliver Dowden on x

  Now that we've left the EU we can seize the opportunity to develop a world-leading data regime that will deliver for people across the UK. Forging new global data partnerships and designing our own common sense data laws are all part of our plan. 👉 https://www.gov.uk/... https://…

• @parisdaguerre @parisdaguerre on x

  Has the Government stopped to ask itself what losing this data-sharing agreement will do to British business? Or will business be further damaged to allow a cabal of cronies to hit the jackpot by selling our health data? https://twitter.com/...

• @mdbuckley Mike Buckley on x

  “Brussels has warned that it will sever a data-sharing agreement with the UK if London's attempts to rewrite its internet laws are found to pose a threat to EU citizens' privacy.” Sure looks as if we had more control on the inside... https://www.ft.com/...

• @robertjbateman Robert Bateman on x

  Looks like Kiwi John Edwards is indeed the government's information commissioner pick. The press initially focused on the “Facebook-hating” trope. To be fair, he did call them “morally bankrupt pathological liars.” I did a short piece about Edwards /1 https://www.grcworldforums.c…

• @markscott82 Mark Scott on x

  But the naivety of London on this issue is breathtaking. I know the folk at @DCMS get it, so I then have to think this is less about legit regulation/policymaking and more about political point scoring. That's exactly what's going to create a coherent post-Brexit privacy regime h…

• @troyhunt Troy Hunt on x

  Is England getting rid of cookie warnings as part of brexit? Is this the silver lining in the cloud?! https://twitter.com/...

• @carolecadwalla Carole Cadwalladr on x

  This is huge assault on our fundamental digital & therefore human rights. The government is using Brexit to tear up GDPR. This is a huge huge step backwards. https://twitter.com/...

• @robertjbateman Robert Bateman on x

  The Facebook-hating thing is probably inconsequential. The NZ Herald said that as IC, Edwards would be tasked with “leading a war on big tech on behalf of No 10.” I don't see the role as really allowing for this. /4

• @eehrn Claudia Pagliari on x

  UK government names preferred candidate for next Information Commissioner. New Zealander John Edwards previously referred to Facebook as “morally bankrupt pathological liars”. Fireworks ahead? #DigitalEthics #DataProtection #Privacy #Politics https://www.computing.co.uk/ ...

• @xmas81 Simon on x

  These are the same people that illegally scraped Facebook data during the brexit leave campaign via Cambridge analytica. Privacy is freedom which is why they are weakening data protection (GDPR) laws, slowly chipping away at your rights. Whilst crying free speech, free speech. ht…

• @trialbytruth Infospectives on x

  How do you push back if protections like the #GDPR are gone? Who do you turn to if wrongly accused, or judged to be untrustworthy? Maybe based on data scraped from Facebook. Flagged as a risk for insurance, healthcare, benefits, policing, immigration? https://twitter.com/...

• @emmalbriant @emmalbriant on x

  @EeHRN I bloody hope so. We need someone with some mettle who can take the political pressure and do the right thing.

• @paulwmccormack @paulwmccormack on x

  @OliverDowden You mean dodge the GDPR and lower the standards in order to obey Facebook and Google?

• @tom___scott Tom Scott on x

  @carolecadwalla In 2018 John Edwards himself stressed that the value of a data adequacy agreement between the EU & NZ was “rare & important to preserve” from a trade perspective & would be “disastrous” to lose. But that's exactly what Dowden now looks to be set on doing by tearin…

• @nigeltheleftist @nigeltheleftist on x

  Translates as: If you felt powerless before in the face Cambridge Analytica et al manipulating your decision making without you even being aware if it just wait until we fuck off the last vestiges of oversight. You won't know what you think until we tell you. https://twitter.com/…

• @bigbrotherwatch @bigbrotherwatch on x

  The Government wants to take away data rights in the UK - laws we use to push back against live facial recognition, digital strip searches, biometric data theft + more. We're fighting a data heist whilst on the brink of an AI revolution. This isn't a time for ‘light touch’ laws. …

• @eehrn Claudia Pagliari on x

  @doctorinsulin Yep, seen this. It's like an internecine war brewing in Conservative HQ. Either that or a keeping all sides sweet approach, the ICO anti-FB pitch being a possible fig leaf for Biden, who's cracking down hard on big tech. Hard to tell until we know more about the GD…

• @sarahludford @sarahludford on x

  ‘Unleashing the power of data’ = ‘trashing the data protection rights you have courtesy of EU law and the data transfer privileges that UK businesses have courtesy of a decision of the @EU_Commission that can be terminated if UK govt trashes as above’ https://twitter.com/...

• @rodneyorpheus Rodney Orpheus on x

  What could possibly go wrong? “...the first territories with which it will prioritise striking ‘data adequacy’ partnerships now it has left the EU as the United States, Australia, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, the Dubai International Finance Centre and Colombia.” https://twit…

• @iconews ICO on x

  .@DCMS have today announced current New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards, as the preferred candidate for the UK's next Information Commissioner. Read more: https://www.gov.uk/... https://twitter.com/...

• @markscott82 Mark Scott on x

  It is true that GDPR hasn't really worked (see this https://www.politico.eu/...). And it is true that Brexit does provide Brits w/ opportunity to try things quicker than the EU, just see what @CMAgovUK is up to in the antitrust space

• @markscott82 Mark Scott on x

  But when I hear that losing adequacy with EU on data is an acceptable loss, and that UK is putting innovation before “box-ticking” regulation, I can't help but bash my head against a table

• @dcms @dcms on x

  Data-enabled exports to our ten priority countries are already worth more than £80 billion. We can unlock billions more in exports and output if we reduce unnecessary barriers and burdens on international transfers. https://gov.uk/... https://twitter.com/...

• @mike_fabricant Michael Fabricant on x

  Our own data privacy rules must be robust, but sensible. The #EU rules contain a small number yet critical regulations which are impractical and often ignored but at the company's peril. https://twitter.com/...

• @ciaranmartinoxf Ciaran Martin on x

  One of those occasions where it's impossible to take a view on the policy on the basis of what the Government has briefed out at newspaper article length. Might be substantive; might be cosmetic. Might be good; might be bad. Won't know until there's a detailed policy paper https:…