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Data privacy alarm bells after Brexit warns whistleblower
- Sunday | 2nd February, 2020
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – British people’s data privacy will be “hanging in the balance” after Brexit, former Cambridge Analytica staffer-turned-whistleblower Brittany Kaiser warned as the country leaves the European Union. British users are currently covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which protects all EU citizens from privacy and data breaches. Such regulation is critical to prevent “future Cambridge Analytica scandals”, Kaiser said, referring to her former employer’s cross-Atlantic data privacy scandal. With uncertainty around the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU, she urged app users to take steps to protect their data. Once seen as engines of growth and innovators, tech giants have come under fire on both sides of the Atlantic for allegedly misusing their power and failing to protect users.
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