UK-EU Brexit deal passes Commons with six-month data adequacy bridge
Summary
According to Bloomberg, whose reporter Stephanie Bodoni spoke to an EU official familiar with the talks, the trade deal includes an interim solution with respect to adequacy for a maximum of six months. “It is vital that the UK government and European Commission work at speed to finalise the process in order to give businesses certainty and to allow the UK to move on to a new phase of collaboration with industry and stakeholders in the development of data policies that support high standards and the innovative use of data to improve public services and the growth of the tech sector,” added David. But in education, Great Britain is now out of the Erasmus university exchange programme – students in Northern Ireland can still access the scheme, thanks to an intervention by the Irish government. British students will be able to use a new scheme, named after Alan Turing, the Cambridge-educated Mathematician whom the UK state chemically castrated in 1952, following a homosexuality conviction, in the decade after he had played a leading role in the code-breaking efforts at Bletchley Park. There is an agreement for the continued use by the UK and the EU of the Passenger Name Records system and the Prüm database of fingerprints, DNA and car number plates.