Insights into Data Protection Reform from Julia Lopez MP, Minister of State for Media, Data and Digital Infrastructure

At the DMA's Data 2022 conference today, MP Julia Lopez, Minister of State for Media, Data and Digital Infrastructure, reveals insights into the government's next steps towards UK data protection reform.

Her speech, which can be found below, features discussion on how the government intends to use recent industry sessions about the 'Data: A New Direction' consultation to inform their response in spring for potential reforms.

Julia Lopez states that the "paperwork of privacy can be burdensome", so reforms will move the UK to a "more proportionate, outcomes-based compliance regime for data rights."

The government's aim is to strengthen accountability requirements to protect individual rights, but offer businesses opportunity and flexibility to find the most effective method to protect individual rights.

The reforms will unleash the power of data to enable the "UK to be the most attractive global data marketplace and a global services digital and data hub." The UK will seek to create "a data protection regime that is "pro-growth, pro-innovation and also trusted by all."

Further details below.