The article explicitly states Google is pre-empting the UK diverging significantly from EU law in order to get a trade deal with the US.
I don't think that's a bad bet given that Downing Street is keen to make clear food standards and the NHS are also up for grabs.
If anything, data protection is so badly understood as being important to ministers, it would not surprise me if they trade it away in order to protect food standards and the NHS because they're more prevalent in the headlines and scarier to the over-50s that predominantly voted for Brexit and this government.
I don't think that's a bad bet given that Downing Street is keen to make clear food standards and the NHS are also up for grabs.
If anything, data protection is so badly understood as being important to ministers, it would not surprise me if they trade it away in order to protect food standards and the NHS because they're more prevalent in the headlines and scarier to the over-50s that predominantly voted for Brexit and this government.