The UK’s tax office, HMRC, has announced that it is seeking a new Data Protection Officer (DPO) to help the department navigate the complexities of the forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation Regulation (GDPR), which is due to come into effect in May 2018. Despite the UK’s decision to leave the EU in 2019, regulators have decided to continue to comply with GDPR to keep close data links with other EU member states and have incorporated the new data protection rules into the recently announced Data Protection Bill.

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