No-deal Brexit will block critical data transfers from EU

Despite bringing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into UK law in the form of the Data Protection Act 2018, leaving the EU without a deal in place means Britain will be, for a time, classed as a ‘third country’ until an adequacy agreement can be implemented.

This means that while some data can be transferred from the UK to European Economic Area (EEA) countries, something supported by the UK government, there will be a stop to all flow of personal information in the opposite direction until a data adequacy agreement comes into force, according to the ICO.

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