The UK’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, has vowed that the UK will leave the EU on October 31, 2019. A unilateral (or “hard”) Brexit poses many privacy and data protection challenges for companies that operate in the UK.  Post-Brexit privacy and data protection issues that you need to consider include:

• how to maintain uninterrupted personal data flows between the EU and the UK;
• the UK’s status as a “third country” in the event of a no-deal Brexit, which will impede the transfer of personal data from the UK to the EU;
• whether companies selling into the UK need to appoint a local representative after Brexit;
• the impact Brexit will have on companies’ existing lead supervisory authority structures; and
• the future of eMarketing and ePrivacy laws in the UK.

To read more about these issues and what actions you should take before and following Brexit, click here.