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ARTICLE · 09 JANUARY 2018

Mandatory Changes Proposed To UK Government Contracts' Data Privacy Terms

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The UK government has announced that it intends to write to all government contractors in order to make unilateral changes to all UK government contracts to comply with impending changes in EU data privacy law.

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Alistair Maughan
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The UK government has announced that it intends to write to all government contractors in order to make unilateral changes to all UK government contracts to comply with impending changes in EU data privacy law.

It's not clear how the UK government intends to implement these contractual changes given that, in almost every case, the terms of the relevant government contracts don't allow for unilateral contract variation.  But the official policy is that all costs of compliance with the new rules should be borne by the contractor and not passed through to the government.

The planned changes to EU privacy law have been known for some time.  The EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force in May 2018 and could potentially affect companies worldwide.  The GDPR imposes far-reaching obligations for companies operating in the EU that collect, use, or otherwise process personal information.  MoFo has a GDPR Readiness Center providing details

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