One final push needed to reap the full benefits of reform
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techUK's ten recommendations to reap the full benefits of reform to the UK's Data Protection Regime:
Broadening and clarifying the research provisions to offer organisations certainty when conducting data-driven, commercial R&D;
Expanding the legitimate interest list to allow organisations to more easily secure their networks and improve their internal systems;
Providing additional flexibility for international data transfers to allow the UK to become a global hub for data-driven innovation
Ensuring Regulatory coherence between data protection legislation and the UK’s AI Governance policy;
Delivering a clear, innovation-enabling framework for digital verification services which helps to lower barriers to entry for new market entrants and promotes growth and competition;
Clarifying the Secretary of State’s new regulation making powers, particularly the intention for the Secretary of State to approve the regulator’s statutory codes of practice;
Commitment to further consultation on the long-term move to an opt-out model for cookie consent;
Removing additional barriers to security updates on-device, to ensure end-users remain protected against security vulnerabilities;
Narrowing the scope and clarifying obligations for communications providers to report on unsolicited directing marketing;
10. Clarifying how new information standards for health and social care will interact with the draft Standards and Interoperability Strategy.
