How the UK’s risk-based data protection policy can result in lower standards of data protection
17 June 2013
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Today’s blog deals with the UK position on the Irish text of the Regulation and is based on the statements of Chris Grayling MP, the Cabinet Minister responsible for data protection at a June’s Council of Ministers meeting (see references). Following these statements I have concluded that the current UK Government policy on data protection supports a level of protection below that established by Directive 95/46/EC. This arises because the Government want many more data protection obligations in the replacement
