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by funshed 1712 days ago
The UK has launched a consolution on how to improve Data Protection Laws.

One campaign on this consultation is to abolish the stupid Cookie Consent requirement, that is evidenced again and again to be wholley pointless.

Anouther campaign with this consultation is to enable medical researches to use anonomised NHS data. The National Health Service (NHS) is huge and useing that data could usher in some great medical advancements.

The government cites a project at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the University College London Institute of Ophthalmology where machine learning technology was applied to thousands of historic de-personalised eye scans to identify signs of eye disease and recommend how patients should be referred for care.

There is no plans to weaken GDPR. Even if there was Adam Bird's company is welcome to go above and beyond the requirement.

It's all nonsense, move if you want to. At this stage he doesnt even know what is changeing, to state Brexit and GDPR as the reason is premature.
4 comments
Thiez 1712 days ago
> the stupid Cookie Consent requirement, that is evidenced again and again to be wholley pointless

Is it? It caused some companies such as GitHub to get rid of third party cookies entirely, and they don't need to ask for consent for the cookies that they do use. If only the law were enforced more, and I imagine in a few more years many more companies would be compliant.

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lixtra 1712 days ago
> Even if there was Adam Bird's company is welcome to go above and beyond the requirement.

It’s a brand issue. Being EU based signals that you have to obey GDPR by law, not only contract. Just like being a Swiss bank was a brand advantage long time ago.

Of course, for their EU customers any company has to comply with GDPR by law.

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M2Ys4U 1712 days ago
>There is no plans to weaken GDPR

You and I have read a very different consultation document, then.

The UK government absolutely are planning to weaken the UK GDPR.

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Zenst 1712 days ago
The prospect of people protesting to save cookies and slogans upon buses saying we could save the NHS millions of clicks a year by scrapping them - has my comedy pen running away with itself.
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pjc50 1712 days ago
> use anonomised NHS data

If you've successfully anonymized it, it's no longer personal data subject to GDPR?

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