UK and USA seek new world order for cross-border data sharing and privacy
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/12/09/uk_and_us_data_flows/
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International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, met with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to hold discussions on cross border data flows, supply chains and tariffs.
A [1]joint statement released by Raimondo and Dorries on Wednesday said the two nations re-committed to “promoting the trustworthy use and exchange of data across borders” and plan to collaborate on the design and creation of next-gen tools that shape new global norms on data use.
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The two nations want a regime that "promotes and advances interoperability between different data protection frameworks, facilitating cross-border data flows while maintaining high standards of data protection and trust."
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The pair would also like to work with “like-minded partners” and the [5]Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) , to build trust in the ways their governments access public safety, national security and law enforcement related information.
[6]Max Schrems hits Irish Data Protection Commissioner with corruption complaint
[7]UK data guardian challenges government proposals on automated decision-making
[8]Belgium watchdog reckons online advertisers should be data controllers under GDPR
Both parties acknowledged the challenges associated with working across jurisdictions.
Stateside with my friend and colleague [9]@annietrev meeting [10]@SecRaimondo to discuss matters around data, telecoms diversification and AI
We’ve agreed to go forward and work together on promoting the free and secure flow of data between our two nations 🇬🇧🇺🇸 [11]https://t.co/pTMaTZqgu3 [12]pic.twitter.com/hG1LzCCWz7 — Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) [13]December 8, 2021
Dorries later announced that the UK and the US were partnering on a challenge designed to overcome technical and adoption challenges related to privacy-enhancing technology (PET)s.
“Of all the democracy-affirming technologies, we’re particularly interested in ones that can help us use personal or sensitive data responsibly,” said Dorries in a [14]speech for the Summit for Democracy.
In her speech, Dorries drew parallels between the Summit for Democracy - an event the Biden administration convened this week - and the Future Tech Forum hosted less than two weeks prior, where the UK secretary [15]signed three digital trade-related memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Singapore. During the Future Tech Forum, Dorries also extolled the virtues of the UK's new Digital Trade Network (DTN), a three-year pilot programme designed to support UK business wanting to grow digitally into Asia-Pacific.
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While Dorries focused on data flow and digital trade agreements, it wasn’t the only thing on the agenda. Raimondo and Trevelyan focused their efforts on steel and aluminium, its global excess capacity and concerns related to U.S. tariffs and UK countermeasures.
The pair also nodded their heads enthusiastically about cooperating on clean technology for decarbonization, although no action items were revealed, to the public at least. ®
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[1] https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/12/us-uk-joint-statement-deepening-data-partnership
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[5] https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/12/readout-secretary-gina-m-raimondos-joint-meeting-anne-marie-trevelyan
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/24/max_schrems_files_corruption_complaint/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/23/uk_automated_decision_making/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/08/realtime_bidding_in_online_advertising/
[9] https://twitter.com/annietrev?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[10] https://twitter.com/SecRaimondo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[11] https://t.co/pTMaTZqgu3
[12] https://t.co/hG1LzCCWz7
[13] https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/1468725658889166853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[14] https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/dcms-secretary-of-state-speech-at-the-summit-for-democracy
[15] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/01/singapore_uk_digital_trade_mous/
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[17] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: Nice drafting
PETs and other fine sounding words that will have no real meaning. You can have all the tech that you want - but unless there are strong laws that prevent the abuse of personal data then companies & governments will do as they wish.
The sort of thing to start with: if a USA company goes bust then the personal data that it has will be sold to the highest bidder regardless of what the company promised when the data was acquired.
But I expect the UK government to not put in any real effort and will allow our privacy to be abused.
Re: Nice drafting
@Detective Emil
"Congratulations to the US and the UK on producing a joint statement that mentions none of the following: GDPR, EU, adequacy, Max Schrems …"
I was happy to see that too, not that I would want to see those words coming from the joint statement between the UK and US.
“Of all the democracy-affirming technologies, we’re particularly interested in ones that can help us use personal or sensitive data responsibly,”
So they need organisations that have experience with this kind of data and who can cooperate, maybe the NSA and GCHQ would fill that bill since they have been doing it for years.
Though possibly not responibly.
I find it unlikely that any agreement between the UK and US will fit in with the EU's notions on data sharing.
democracy-affirming technologies
“Of all the democracy-affirming technologies, we’re particularly interested in ones that can help us use personal or sensitive data responsibly,” said Dorries.
Presumably without the inconvenience of us plebs having much of a say whether or not our personal data gets used or not if there's money to be made from it. There's no such thing as a "democracy-affirming technology". Just whether or not technology is used in a democratic way, including whether people have a say in how data is collected and used. The tech can't help you be responsible, you have to have a sense of responsibility and decency yourself. And the want-to-play-fast-and-loose-with-personal-data-for-profit attitude of our government is just about the opposite of that, so once again we're trying to lead a world that doesn't seem all that interested in following us.
Nice drafting
Congratulations to the US and the UK on producing a joint statement that mentions none of the following: GDPR, EU, adequacy, Max Schrems …