Data Flows To The UK From The EU Won't Hit A Dam

The European Commission published a draft decision on UK adequacy for transfers of personal data from the EU to the UK, which you can read here. This EC conducted an assessment of the UK's GDPR framework under the UK Data Protection Act 2018, including data protection rules applicable to UK law enforcement and national security and surveillance. It concludes that the UK ensures an 'essentially equivalent' level of protection to that within the EU, under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Law Enforcement Directive (LED), meaning data transfers can flow from the EU to the UK without further safeguards.

Draft decision

Despite having left the EU, the UK remains a member of the European "privacy family". The European Commission's press release highlights that the UK remains party to (and is committed to remain party to) the European Convention of Human Rights and to "Convention 108" of the Council of Europe, further commenting that this is "of