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On September 14, the UK government introduced a data protection bill to the House of Lords.
Among other changes, the legislation will update definitions
required for implementation of the GDPR, extend the provisions of
the GDPR to processing that would not otherwise be covered by EU
law, implement the Law Enforcement Directive in the UK, and repeal
the Data Protection Act of 1998.
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