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Even if the rules say they're no longer required, doesn't mean for global sites you won't still see them here.

If they're required in the EU but not in the UK, will a company produce a UK specific site, or just keep it in for the UK as a simple way to comply for both?

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I know. But that will be down to poor web design. The cookie control pop-up hinders user engagement with any website, and worse, it does so on the all-important first visit, when first impressions count. Once a few sites ditch it, it will leave the rest looking clunky. Even a few extra seconds wait time is an eternity on the web. There’s no technical reason why site operators can’t remove the UK from whichever geoblocking system they use to prevent EU users from seeing the website without first acknowledging the cookie control pop-up. After the law changes, and it gets inevitable publicity in UK media, I think lots of places will ditch it.

On a related issue, by the way, the real benefits of these reforms aren’t in the removal of cookie pup-ups, they are in relaxing the absurd administrative burden currently put upon even small charities and community groups who already barely have the resources to manage simple members/supporters lists and have to have reams of policies just to ensure such things aren’t shared by the wrong email address or even stored on the wrong cloud service, and to inform the data commissioner when even an extremely trivial data ‘breach’ occurs.

It has been rather annoying sitting in more than one context and witnessing the chaos it has caused, especially in situations where things are being run by volunteers. I won’t be sorry to see the back of as much of that as possible.

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Well, if some EU rules still apply to NI, will websites aimed at all of the UK still have to comply with EU regulations?

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Looks like the suggestion of changes to data protection legislation aren't sitting well with some areas of business. Not sure how this might impact are data equivalence deal with the EU.
https://www.ft.com/content/f344f7ea-...3-26b73c5804da

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Those with a vested interest in aligning with the EU will continue to fight a rearguard action against any expression of British sovereignty. In particular we can expect large companies that can absorb bureaucracy relatively better than small ones to fight to preserve this advantage.

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If the site developers want to do that yes, but it all depends if it's worth them changing it.

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As with most things Brexit, the government is well within its rights to make changes to our rules. That doesn't mean that other countries or organisations won't also make changes to their approach after that.

Why would any country in the EU transfer data to a 3rd party country where they don't have an agreement that matches their internal rules as to how that data will be protected?

The EU made clear that their adequacy decision would be revisited if divergence happened, and that is based on their member states own views.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/pres.../en/ip_21_3183

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The Taliban are the enemy. Maybe frenemies is the word you're after to describe countries like the US, Japan, France etc.

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Calling the EU an enemy is a bit OTT, but their actions suggest they now see us as a strategic rival rather than as an ally and we should view them likewise.

International treaties are generally based on mutual recognition of standards, not on alignment, and while the data treaty between the UK and EU does indeed use the language of recognition (“adequacy” in this case) the EU’s warnings in this case demonstrate that what they really want is alignment, or as near to it as possible.

It is ludicrous to suggest that the UK’s new data regime would materially threaten the personal details of EU citizens (as it would also do the same to UK citizens), though as all EU systems are an excessively bureaucratic fudge designed to mollify competing interests across member states, it is odds-on that the UK’s new regime could be markedly more efficient - and that’s what the EU is actually worried about. They will hide behind data security concerns but in fact, what they fear is the freedom we now have to out-compete them.

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Fair point, though looks like there are still clauses around changes in that too

https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/defa..._agreement.pdf

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