Welcome to the June 2023 issue of your Computing Security Newsletter.

The UK government has reintroduced new GDPR legislation, which it claims will save businesses and charities as much as £4.7bn over the coming decade, while bolstering data protection and privacy.

Edward Machin, a senior lawyer in Ropes & Gray's data, privacy & cybersecurity practice, feels some of the proposals – those around scientific research in particular – will come to be seen as an improvement on the status quo."The things that critics of the previous Bill focused on – removal of data protection officers, broadening of consent and restricting individual rights – have remained. That will be music to the ears of some businesses, but those with European operations must now decide whether or not to maintain a single compliance standard across the EU and UK, which will reduce some of the compliance efficiencies they would have hoped to make."

While Machin believes a number of the proposed changes are sensible,it's telling he has concerns that cutting red tape for the sake of it could have unintended consequences. "Although no one is going to complain about a reduction in paperwork, removing the requirement for most businesses to maintain personal data inventories means they might struggle to understand how and where they hold data, which isn’t in anybody's benefit."

Brian Wall, Editor
Computing Security

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