Brexit Update: The Effect of Brexit on Data Transfers between the United Kingdom and the European Union

By Dr. Claus Färber on September 1, 2016

With the United Kingdom having voted to leave the European Union (Brexit) on 23 June 2016, the free flow of personal data between the United Kingdom and EU and European Economic Area (EEA) countries is at risk. Should the United Kingdom also leave the EEA and thus become a “third country” for the purposes of data transfers, EU/EEA businesses that are currently retaining UK service providers or data centres to handle or store personal data, or are planning to do so, would have to carefully re-evaluate this decision.

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Tags: Brexit, data processing arrangements, data transfer protections, Directive 95/46/EC, European Court of Justice, European Economic Area, European Union, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, intra-group data transfers, United Kingdom, US-EU Safe Harbor

Dr. Claus Färber
Dr. Claus Färber focuses his practice on all legal aspects related to the telecoms, media and technology industries and is a member of the German Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) practice group in Munich. Claus advises on major cooperation and framework agreements in IT, ecommerce and communications, such as internet access in aircraft, Wi-Fi hotspots, roaming, cloud platforms and machine-to-machine communications (M2M). These projects often break new grounds from a technological and commercial as well as legal view and regularly touch multiple sectors of the law, including telecommunications, information technology and intellectual property law, and also require an understanding of the economic technological background. Read Dr. Claus Färber's full bio.

Brexit Update: The Effect of Brexit on Data Transfers between the United Kingdom and the European Union

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