Thread by @markscott82

Current scenes in Brussels after London announces it wants to reach a international data deal w/ the US (and Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Kenya, South Korea, India & Singapore)

Fun fact: while the UK is pursuing these post-Brexit deals (as is its right), if such agreements leads to EU data being transferred to third-party countries that don't have adequacy deals w/ EU, then the UK's own deal w/ the EU could be in jeopardy

Worth remembering that the EU has tried to get a data deal done w/ Australia for years, but Canberra has been unwilling to meet Brussels' demands (as is its right). Also: EU's future data deal w/ US still very much up in the air.

So question I would be asking is: If/when the UK does these data deals, what happens to its data relationship w/ the EU (where 3/4 of its international data flows go to)? How does that work with the very likely chance of data being onpassed via the UK to third-party countries?

How does a UK adequacy regime, with countries that do not have their own deals w/ the EU, work with the UK's existing deal with the EU (which, as a reminder, has a sunset clause that ends in 4 years and must be renewed on the proviso that the UK remains with the EU's sphere)?

I also don't want to be a buzzkill, but in UK's statement on the benefits of these deals, at no point do they mention the importance of upholding people's privacy rights.

I also want to "stay emotionally and socially connected." But they couldn't have stressed privacy rights?

Oh this is fun. @OliverDowden tells the Telegraph that he wants to get rid of cookie banners. Huzzah!

<<question from the back>> So you're doing to rewrite the UK's data protection rules, including the need to get consent before processing personal information?

Oh, oh, more questions: How will you determine what are, and what are not, cookies linked to "high risk" activities? How will getting rid of cookie banners fit in w/ UK's legal guarantees via EU adequacy deal to uphold GDPR-level privacy rules?

<<puts on super geeky hat>> This is what current UK law says about cookies and need for consent. I get it, cookie banners are annoying. But you know what else is annoying? Companies collecting people's information w/o asking them first.