The European Union has reached an agreement on data sharing with the United Kingdom. After Brexit, there were options for that based on temporary decisions, but now there is more clarity about the long-term.
The transition period associated with Brexit means that the parties have to consider how data travels between the EU and the UK, for example. The UK is no longer required to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but is trying to work as closely as possible with the GDPR.
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Now, if you transfer data to the UK, in other words outside the EU, it should also be well protected there. Privacy Shield, for example, helped with that, despite being declared invalid since July 2020. However, the European Commission has now decided that the UK will comply with the GDPR in this way. As promised, it chose rules very close to the GDPR. The European Union writes happy about that EUObserver. There has even been a separate law on data in criminal matters, so that data can still be shared between companies and between governments in a secure manner despite Brexit.
Several business organizations have already expressed their support for the EU’s decision. The European Union has previously made similar statements about Argentina, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and Switzerland, which means that there is also a good relationship with those countries when it comes to data. We hope that the European Union will soon devise an alternative to the Privacy Shield, which will also make the United States a better place to share data.
