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    It's classic disaster capitalism. Think Chile under Pinochet or post Hurricane Katrina.

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      British users of any Google company will no longer be covered by GDPR, and instead their personal data will be subject to US standards.

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        Christ

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          Originally posted by Diable Rouge View Post
          British users of any Google company will no longer be covered by GDPR, and instead their personal data will be subject to US standards.
          It's not as simple as that. The UK Data Protection Act still applies, and that is still reasonably closely aligned with GDPR (UK-specific exceptions include use for immigration purposes).

          This change might mean that Google are able to shift a bit faster if UK legislation changes (e.g. because of trade or security deals, because "GDPR blocks innovation OMG!", because "GDPR blocks what we want to do on public services", etcetera).

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            None of our data's secure anyway. It's all in the cloud now and anyone can get it in minutes if they want it. I get cold called by bogus scammers who know more about me than I do.

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              What are you doing answering the phone?

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                Originally posted by pkw View Post
                It's not as simple as that. The UK Data Protection Act still applies, and that is still reasonably closely aligned with GDPR (UK-specific exceptions include use for immigration purposes).

                This change might mean that Google are able to shift a bit faster if UK legislation changes (e.g. because of trade or security deals, because "GDPR blocks innovation OMG!", because "GDPR blocks what we want to do on public services", etcetera).
                Reading between the lines of the article, it sounds like what's really the issue here is the privacy shield agreement between EU and the US, the "adequacy" regime for third countries, and what happens if the UK government seeks information about individuals whose data is in Ireland.

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                  I can see a good data protection academic who publicly agrees

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                    NME claiming that any non-UK musician will require a visa and £1,000 in savings to perform in the UK after the transition period:

                    https://www.nme.com/news/non-uk-musi...mpression=true

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                      Fuckin hell

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                        Originally posted by Diable Rouge View Post
                        NME claiming that any non-UK musician will require a visa and £1,000 in savings to perform in the UK after the transition period:

                        https://www.nme.com/news/non-uk-musi...mpression=true
                        Presumably, the EU will impose similar rules on UK musicians, yes?

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                          Council agrees negotiating mandate

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                            UK mandate published

                            FT is leading on the line that we're threatening to walk away in June and prepare for WTO terms if things aren't progressing. Which I actually find encouraging, as it means the government is acknowledging that July is the real deadline. Of course, the UK backpedalling as hard as it can on the political declaration is not so encouraging.

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                              The EU equivalent of settled status has just been launched.

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                                Sounds like it's more about the documentation than the actual framework, which will still be up to individual member states (subject to FTA).

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                                  Indeed, but standardising the proof of residence should at least simplify the process.

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                                    Almost a thousand Britons being naturalised as Irish next week - to put that in context, the figure was 600 during the first six months of 2019.

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                                      https://www.theguardian.com/politics...rade-says-gove
                                      Red tape Brexit continues apace.

                                      The article neglects to mention that HMRC is in the midst of haemorghing tens of thousands of staff as it retreats from the big towns and smaller cities into thirteen superstatesites in cities that have buoyant employment markets.

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                                        Why are they doing this? There's two new build blocks of 10 storeys in Glasgow's Financial district flying up at the moment for HMRC. Keeping staff in say East Kilbride real estate must be a lot cheaper. Is it to get the "best and the brightest"? (Who will prob go to vampire wankers like Accenture for three times the money)

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                                          First you run down a public service, then you say it isn't working and the private sector could do it better.

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                                            Private sector tax farmers, christ.

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                                              Hey, it worked perfectly fine for thousands of years. Are you some kind of statist Mazarinesque cuck?

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                                                Yeah I oughta Read Some Hayek.

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                                                  Anyway, I'm past caring, I'm out in four weeks.

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                                                    You have something else lined up?

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