2016 Review: Post-Brexit – What's the Potential Fallout For Data Protection?

We have written and published a variety of tech law-related insights throughout 2016. Following the trend of recent years, 2016 has not disappointed in highlighting many important and complex issues in the areas of privacy and data protection. For the MHC Tech Blog, our most popular post related, somewhat unsurprisingly, to Brexit and the effect that it may have on data protection. We have republished this post once more, as it still remains relevant as 2017 approaches.

The result in the recent Brexit referendum creates questions on how the UK’s decision to leave the EU will impact stakeholders across the key sectors of the UK economy.

We take a look at what Brexit means for technology, data protection and privacy.