MARCH | TECH
Post-Brexit
GDPR
Words: James Morgan, founder,
Event Tech Lab
T
he events industry
spent lot of time
in 2017 and 2018
preparing for the EU’s new
data regulation GDPR.
Data management, storage
and dissemination were all
dealt with under the new
regulations with companies
spending a lot of time and
money on creating new
processes to comply with
the new regulations. Well
that’s all in place now, but
how is our sector going to
be impacted on post-Brexit?
I talked to the Information
Commissioners Office to get
the low-down on post-Brexit
GDPR.
GDPR will be absorbed into
UK law when the UK exits the
European Union. There will
be no substantive changes to
the regulations and its just
a case of copy and paste into
UK law. Information will then
flow freely between the UK
and the European Economic
Area. This assumes that
Parliament has had time to
enact all the laws including
GDPR in time for the 29
March deadline. But what
if there is a ‘no deal’ Brexit?
In that case, precautionary
arrangements will need
to be made by companies
transferring data over the
boarder.
First, your organisation
should carry on complying
with GDPR. If you have UK
and EU offices, then there is
no need (yet) to have a data
protection officer in each
jurisdiction. Second, on data
transfer to the UK, think
about what GDPR safeguards
you can put in place to ensure
that data can continue to
flow once we are outside the
EU jurisdiction. Third, data
transfers out of UK will need
to comply with data laws in
other jurisdictions – such as
EU, USA or others. Finally,
review your documentation
and make any changes to
update the fact the UK has left
the EU. But its not as simple
as an UK/EU consideration.
US trade negotiators are
contemplating a hard line
and asking for a reduction in
the UK’s overly-burdensome
consumer data rules in any
new deal.
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