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ARTICLE · 26 OCTOBER 2018

Brexit And Data Protection

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As over half a million people marched to Westminster this weekend for a People's Vote – a demand for a second referendum on the eventual Brexit deal ...

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As over half a million people marched to Westminster this weekend for a People's Vote – a demand for a second referendum on the eventual Brexit deal – this put me in mind of one essential similarity between the UK referendum-hopefuls (on the one hand) and global Data Protection Officers (on the other): A desire for control over the direction of events following the 29 March 2019. Less than 6 months away from "Brexit Day", two questions asked daily by our global clients are: How will Brexit affect data transfers to and from the UK? And how best should we prepare?

A Brexit deal is essentially uncertain – ironically for the demonstrators, that uncertainty is only likely to be exacerbated in the short term by any prospect of a further referendum. A transition period covering data flows is similarly moot. The prospect of an adequacy decision is months or even years away, if the pace of progress in the European Commission's dealings with Japan and South Korea is anything

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