UK is lowering privacy standards, says EU officials
In his remarks following Round 3 of negotiations for a new partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom Michel Barnier has pointed out that United Kingdom insists on lowering current standards and deviating from agreed mechanisms of data protection – “to the point that it is even asking the Union to ignore its own law and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice on passenger data (“PNR rules”)”.
Michel Barnier also notet that “The UK refuses to commit, in an agreement with us, to guarantees protecting fundamental rights and individual freedoms resulting from the European Convention on Human Rights, as agreed in the Political Declaration”.
