Nigel Farage wants to scrap GDPR for the UK
Reform UK said GDPR has "strangled small businesses and tech firms."
On Tuesday night, Reform UK announced plans to eliminate the UK's data protection regime, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as part of a broader initiative to aid small businesses. Following Brexit, the UK integrated an updated version of the EU's GDPR into British law. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claims small enterprises have struggled under "burdensome EU regulations," and their proposed plan, which includes eliminating GDPR, is a "brave, pragmatic solution."
According to Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick, "The GDPR has choked small businesses and tech firms with an excess of unnecessary rules... Ten years after the Brexit referendum, we must not continue to adhere to outdated EU privacy laws that damage British enterprises." Although the EU GDPR grants more individual rights regarding personal data than New Zealand's Privacy Act, Reform UK argues that adopting the New Zealand model would maintain the UK's EU data adequacy status, enabling unrestricted data transfer between the UK and EU.
The European Commission only endorses adequacy for nations that offer data protection on par with the EU. The UK has already diverged from Brussels on privacy laws by enacting the Data (Use and Access) Act last year, which eased some aspects of the UK GDPR to stimulate economic expansion.
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