IT Pro: UK government to consider gutting GDPR rules

Commentary by by Sian Stephens, Associate and GDPR and data protection specialist lawyer in the Corporate department at Payne Hicks Beach,on the UK Government’s plans to scrap the existing UK data protection rules as a taskforce, including senior MPs, has branded the GPDR “prescriptive and inflexible” and urged Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to replace the framework with a new regime, first published online by ITPro on 17 June 2021 and reproduced with kind permission.