Replacing GDPR will “double administrative headache” for businesses

Responding to the news that Britain is set to replace the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with its own ‘bespoke’ system, Alison Williams, member of the UK Trade and Business Commission and Global Head of Data at DunnHumby, said:

“Despite the spin, scrapping GDPR would, in practice, double the administrative headache for the hundreds of thousands of British businesses who trade with or operate within the EU. They would be burdened with the overhead of two unique sets of regulations.

“Instead of making up policy on the hoof, ministers must recognise that smooth, barrier-free data sharing with the EU is essential to ensuring British businesses can trade and operate and commit that they will not pursue such an unnecessary and disastrous course of action.”