LONDON (BLOOMBERG) - Brexit might mean the United Kingdom is no longer a member of the European Union, but that does not mean it will escape the long arm of the bloc's data protection rules. Under a deal previously negotiated between the EU and the UK, Britain had two years to clinch a decision from the EU that would allow organisations to freely move data to and from the continent without breaking the bloc's General Data Protection Regulation rules and facing fines of as much as 4 per cent of their annual sales as a result. But heightening fears of a hard Brexit on Oct 31 now have companies racing to implement back-up mechanisms that some industry experts say they probably never counted on needing. In Britain, government departments, including some in the National Health Service, are repatriating their data - such as personal data about citizens - to the UK from places such as Ireland, according to a person familiar with the matter. "It's not really an option just to ignore this and … [Read more...] about Businesses race to keep data flowing under a no-deal Brexit
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What the world can do to save Myanmar’s displaced minorities
Over just two months in 2017, more than 700,000 people were forced to take refuge along the border of Bangladesh, in what is among the largest refugee exoduses of our time. They joined 300,000 Rohingya in Bangladesh who had escaped previous waves of violence and the hundreds of thousands of other ethnic and religious minorities either internally displaced in the conflict-ravaged borderlands of Myanmar or living in refugee camps along the Thai border. This clear pattern of abuse is not confined to Rakhine state but shifts depending on the military target. It continues unabated despite international calls for an investigation and prosecution of Myanmar’s commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and his top military leaders for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The huge number of displaced civilians from Myanmar is testament to an ongoing cycle of violence and abuse that has devastated ethnic minority areas throughout Myanmar for decades. Eastern Myanmar … [Read more...] about What the world can do to save Myanmar’s displaced minorities