Brexit

Tech pros warn EU 'data adequacy' at risk if Brexit Britain goes its own way

Show us that benefits outweigh the cost, BCS challenges government

Legal17 May 2022 | 84

Vital UK customs system outage contributes to travel chaos at its borders

Updated Remember warning about hurried release to meet Brexit deadline? Never forget

On-Prem08 Apr 2022 | 132

UK science stuck in 'holding pattern' on EU funding by Brexit, says minister

This may be time for plan B

Science07 Feb 2022 | 254

UK's new Brexit Freedom Bill promises already-slated GDPR reform, easier gene editing rules

Claims it will make it easier to amend ‘retained EU law’

AI + ML31 Jan 2022 | 249

UK government responds to post-Brexit concerns and of course it's all the fault of those pesky EU negotiators

'Incalculable cost' of non-participation in Horizon programme 'continues to rise'

Science28 Jan 2022 | 183

Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned'

Originally launched as 'minimum viable product', GVMS has the necessary upgrades, UK taxman says

Applications05 Jan 2022 | 276

UK science suffers as lawmakers continue to dither over Brexit negotiations

Horizons Europe carrot dangled amid protocol wrangling

Science27 Oct 2021 | 201

IBM looks to pandemic and post-Brexit fallout, sees nothing but money-making opportunities

Makes prediction as revenue sinks and profits evaporate at UK trading arm

Off-Prem01 Sep 2021 | 8

Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain

Will this nightmare ever cease?

Bootnotes24 Aug 2021 | 313

SAP uses Scalpel to carve shape of post-Brexit UK ambitions

Multinational software peddler decides suburban Feltenham just doesn't have the je ne sais quoi it needs

Databases19 Jul 2021 | 8

UK gains 'adequacy' status on data sharing with EU, but making that stick all depends on how much post-Brexit law diverges

Updated TIGRR threatens to bounce through unacceptable changes to the rules

Legal22 Jun 2021 | 33

Wanted: Brexit grand fromage. £120k a year. Perks? Hmmmm…

Successful applicant must 'change existing thinking', which is odd as it's all been going so well up to now

Offbeat18 Jun 2021 | 107

Gov.UK taskforce publishes post-Brexit wish-list: 'TIGRR' pounces on GDPR, metric measures

Let's 'free up data for innovation and in the public interest,' says paper

Legal17 Jun 2021 | 123

God bless this mess: Study says UK's Christian beliefs had 'important' role in Brexit

Church of England first left the European bloc in the 16th century

Bootnotes20 Apr 2021 | 284

Pigeon fanciers in a flap over Brexit quarantine flock-up, seek exemption from EU laws

It won't fly. 'We are collateral damage'

Bootnotes15 Apr 2021 | 179

Delayed UK digital border system was only stable enough to be used by 4% of intended users, MPs say

Go-live deadline of 2019 whooshed by - and that's going to cost taxpayer £173m

On-Prem15 Mar 2021 | 42

Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands

Well, Brexit meant Brexit

Storage26 Feb 2021 | 323

Leave.EU takes back control – and shifts its domain name to be inside the European Union

A gesture of Churchillian solidarity with all they hold dear

Networks08 Jan 2021 | 79

Brexit freezes 81,000 UK-registered .eu domains – and you've all got three months to get them back

After years of waffle, potentially thousands of web addresses suspended

Networks05 Jan 2021 | 205

Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA

A simple cut-and-paste text job from a 2008 EU treaty for genetic databases

Legal31 Dec 2020 | 182

Expect to work between Christmas and New Year as Brexit uncertainty continues, UK SAP users told

T minus 23 days and there will very likely be last minute export/import changes

Software09 Dec 2020 | 25

It may date back to 1994 but there's no end in sight for the UK's Chief customs system as Brexit rules beckon

Software dinosaur will run alongside new CDS platform, says HMRC

On-Prem24 Nov 2020 | 266

Northern Ireland announces £165m full-fibre rollout funded by 2017 DUP agreement with Theresa May's UK government

We got Brexit, they also got broadband

Networks18 Nov 2020 | 17

UK's 'minimum viable product' for Brexit transit software will not be ready until December, leaving no time for testing

Fills you with confidence, doesn't it?

Software06 Nov 2020 | 59

With less than two months left, let's check in on Brexit: All IT systems are up and running and ready to go, says no one

Oh sorry, did you expect this headline to work out differently?

On-Prem04 Nov 2020 | 155

UK tech supply chain in dark over Brexit preparations months ahead of final heave-ho

Canalys Forum 2020 - updated How can it be OK when nobody knows what to prepare for, ask IT players

On-Prem16 Oct 2020 | 140

UK taxman waves through £168.8m Fujitsu contract because no one else can hold up 30-year-old infrastructure

What's another three years amid project delays and Brexit uncertainty?

On-Prem13 Oct 2020 | 25

EU's decision on UK data adequacy set to become 'political football' in broader Brexit negotiations

There are bigger fish to fry, but policy changes could still scupper a deal

Security29 Sep 2020 | 34

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

Beta means fully operational? Haha! Good one!

Software25 Sep 2020 | 191

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

*Brexit Satellite. What did you think we meant? GPS continues to rule the roost in Blighty for now

Science21 Sep 2020 | 221

How do you solve 'disruption' at the UK border after Brexit? Let's call Peter Thiel! AI biz Palantir – you're hired

Oh, and Smart Freight System software in beta by April... will be used from December. WCGW?

AI + ML17 Sep 2020 | 76

UK and Japan agree to free trade deal that excludes data localisation requirements

Template for post-Brexit bilateral deals excludes algorithmic disclosures too

Legal14 Sep 2020 | 55

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

Opinion State aid needed to nurture the UK’s first-trillion dollar tech company, political puppet-master claims

Legal08 Sep 2020 | 252

SMEs to UK.gov: We need vouchers for tech and training ahead of final Brexit curtain falling

'Still no clear sense of what we'll be transitioning to' warns Fed of Small Biz

On-Prem07 Sep 2020 | 18

Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December?

New supply chains, brand new system, and ... oh dear, it's still not ready yet

Software04 Sep 2020 | 296

UK formally abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court, Germany plans to move forward nevertheless

Analysis But will the UPC be legal – or even worthwhile – without Britain?

Science21 Jul 2020 | 122

UK government marks 'at least' £115m for new Brexit systems against backdrop of chequered IT project history in customs and border control

Updated CHIEF concerns for customs tech haven't gone away....

On-Prem13 Jul 2020 | 114

One does not simply repurpose an entire internet constellation for sat-nav, but UK might have a go anyway

Blighty pondering OneWeb as the new Brexit Satellite

Science30 Jun 2020 | 259

It's National Cream Tea Day and this time we end the age-old debate once and for all: How do you eat yours?

The question that not even quantum computing can solve

Bootnotes26 Jun 2020 | 159

The clouds part, cash rains on Microsoft's UK money-making machine

Not even Brexit is going to slap our as-a-Service biz

Software22 Jun 2020 | 7

Barmy ban on businesses, Brits based in Blighty bearing or buying .eu domains is back: Cut-off date is Jan 1, 2021

If you're not registered somewhere in the union, you can't use the TLD

Legal04 Jun 2020 | 211

Spending watchdog doubts UK is capable of managing Brexit and coronavirus info campaigns at the same time

Yeah, you and the entire country

Legal03 Jun 2020 | 89

IBM Watson GPU cloud cluster Brexits from London to Frankfurt – because GDPR

Users have migration work to do in the next month. Good thing nobody's busy right now, eh?

SaaS23 Apr 2020 | 50

Build goes digital, Brexit goes virtual (really): El Reg gets some unexpected lessons from WSLConf

Pop quiz: you're hosting your first tech conference and a pandemic is declared. What do you do?

Software16 Mar 2020 | 11

Is technology undermining democracy? It's complicated, says heavyweight thinktank

You only think it's an echo chamber because that's what your echo chamber says

Legal04 Mar 2020 | 33

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now: Brexit tea towel says it'll just be the gigabit broadband

High-speed hedgehog pr0n ahoy

Bootnotes26 Feb 2020 | 119

Hey, Brits. Your Google data is leaving the EU before you are: Hoard to be shipped from Ireland to US next month

Relax, you won't feel a thing

On-Prem20 Feb 2020 | 129

EU tells UK: Cut the BS, sign here, and you can have access to Galileo sat's secure service

ESA shuffles Brits about as Brexit bites

Science05 Feb 2020 | 156

Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks

I didn't see that on the side of a bus

Networks30 Jan 2020 | 242

El Reg tries – and fails – to get its talons on a Brexit tea towel

Ours is on its way – a fortnight after B-Day

Bootnotes29 Jan 2020 | 101

Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program

Don’t worry: The PM's only going to let the best boffins in... honest

Science28 Jan 2020 | 390

Squirrel away a little IT budget for likely Brexit uncertainty, CIOs warned

Plus: 'Member when we modelled sales for Remain? Good times – analyst

Legal15 Jan 2020 | 161

BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters

Clip 'could damage perceptions of our impartiality', says Auntie

Legal29 Nov 2019 | 147

Brexit bad boy Arron Banks' Twitter account hacked: Private messages put online

And the fake news merry-go-round is already in full swing

Security19 Nov 2019 | 59

Who loves Brexit? Irish distributors ... after their sales jump by a third

Analyst says firms insuring against hard exit by the UK

On-Prem19 Nov 2019 | 77

Infosec boffins pour cold water on claims Home Office Brexit app can be easily hacked

'Unnecessary scaremongering' but still some work to be done

Security14 Nov 2019 | 18