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The search for autonomy : The UK’s quest for data protection autonomy, as illustrated in the case of EU-UK PNR data transfers

Berndt, P.R. (2022) The search for autonomy : The UK’s quest for data protection autonomy, as illustrated in the case of EU-UK PNR data transfers.

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Abstract:With the United Kingdom’s formal exit from the European Union and its new status as a “third-country” come a host of diverse and intricate legal issues which will challenge policy-makers for years to come. One of the most divisive of these challenges is the protection and transfer of personal data between the EU and the UK currently regulated in the “Trade and Cooperation Agreement”. With the UK determined to re-claim its (data) sovereignty through Brexit and the EU focussed on utilizing its normative power to “export” its high fundamental rights standards on privacy and personal data protection to third coun-tries, serious “data de-harmonization” is brewing. This thesis analyses the UK’s possibilities to develop an autonomous regime of data protection, illustrated through the specific example of Passenger Name Record Data. Accordingly, the thesis evaluates the EU’s internal and external dimensions of PNR data, before discussing the EU-UK PNR data transfer under the TCA and the UK’s plans to diverge from these provisions so as to create its own autonomous (PNR) data regime. As a thesis founded upon public governance studies in a legal context, it employs a qualitative research design based on hermeneutics, focussing specifically on descriptive, evaluative and interpretive characteristics.
Item Type:Essay (Bachelor)
Faculty:BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Subject:88 social and public administration
Programme:Management Society and Technology BSc (56654)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/91595
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