Nigel Farage wants to scrap GDPR for the UK – POLITICO

LONDON — Reform UK on Tuesday night outlined plans to scrap the U.K.’s data protection regime as part of a broader package of measures designed to help small businesses.

The U.K. decided to incorporate an amended version of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy laws into British law post-Brexit. Reform UK says it would replace the U.K. version of GDPR with a “light-touch” privacy law modeled on New Zealand’s approach to data protection.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said small businesses have had to deal with “suffocating EU red tape” and the package, which includes abolishing GDPR, is a “bold, common-sense rescue plan.”