A UK-Specific Data Protection Framework? The British government announced at the 2022 Conservative party conference at ICC Birmingham that it will replace the General Data Protection Regulation with a new British data protection system. Culture secretary Michelle Donelan said the change is being made as the current EU GDPR is “limiting the potential of our businesses” and that the system will be more “business and consumer friendly”. She went on to say:
Restoring a Laptop From a Backup Leads to €7500 Fine The Belgian DPA has issued a €7500 fine against a company for restoring personal data onto a company laptop. The data belonged to a former employee. After their termination from the company the ex-employee wiped his personal data from the computer. He said he had deleted his personal mailbox. The company say he wiped the entire laptop. Either way, the company restored the laptop from a backup, which restored the former employee’s personal data along with everything else.
UK EU Adequacy Decision Accepted On the June 17, 2021 the EU countries voted on the adequacy decision for the UK. The item in question—the bit that’s either adequate or not—is the UK’s data protection framework. The data protection framework of a non-EU country has to be ratified by the EU before personally identifiable information is permitted to be sent from the EU to that country. Basically, the data protection framework in the non-EU country must be as thorough as the GDPR, and the personally identifying information must be protected and safeguarded just as comprehensively as if it were being processed in a EU country.
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