Reply to post: ''more "pro-innovation" regime.''

John Edwards takes the reins at the UK's data protection watchdog

alain williams Silver badge

''more "pro-innovation" regime.''

That often seems to mean "getting rid of pesky red tape" while glossing over why the red tape was there in the first place.

Red tape is often brought in after something bad has happened to prevent reoccurrence ... then, decades later, it is denounced as slowing business. But all those who were alive when the original bad thing happened are dead, so the red tape is removed and a few years later history repeats itself when bad thing happens again.

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