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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Still applicable in the UK. It was adopted prior to brexit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Wasn't the point of Brexit to get rid of those pesky EU regulations?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

That was one of the 'publicly perceived' points of Brexit and GDPR was either deemed useful enough to keep or, like most things, would take too much effort for the powers that be to get rid of.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

No the point was politicians using xenophobia to get support for themselves, and they accidentally went too far and managed to leave the EU while doing it.