Update 2 - Could new data protection rules mean the end of SMEs?

Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Minister for Data Protection, has delivered a speech outlining the UK Government’s perspective on the EU data protection package, outlining that any country outside of the EU - including the UK - wanting or needing to either share data with EU Member States or handle EU citizens’ data will need to gain an ‘adequacy status’ to do so.

5 July 2016

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Darren Farnden, Head of Marketing[/caption] Yesterday Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG, Minister for Data Protection, gave a speech at the Privacy Laws & Business 29th International Conference held at St. John's College in Cambridge outlining the UK Government’s perspective on the EU data protection package. In essence, she outlined that any country outside of the EU - including the UK - wanting or needing to either share data with EU Member States or handle EU citizens’ data will need to gain an ‘adequacy status’ to do so. This ‘adequacy status’ is essentially an approval from the EU that the applicant country has data protection policies and practices in place that are equal to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) due to enter into force on the 25th May 2018. She stated “This will be a major consideration in the UK’s negotiations going forward”, intimating that Data Protection will be given due care and attention as part of our Brexit negotiations. For more information on what GDPR is and how it could affect your business, please read our previous posts on the subject - links are provided below. Related articles