Data protection and digital competition
by Ian Brown, Douwe Korff and friends
On 17 October 2023, the UK First-Tier Tribunal held the use of the surveillance system offered by the US company Clearview by non-UK law enforcement and intelligence agencies constituted “an activity which, immediately before [Brexit] completion day, fell outside the scope of EU law”, and hence the GDPR. In this brief analysis, I look at why the Tribunal came to this conclusion, and show it is fundamentally flawed.
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Comments on Omer Tene’s quick notes on the UK GDPR reform consultation, focusing mainly on the implications for data transfers and more in particular for onward transfers of personal data first transferred from the EU/EEA to the UK under the recently adopted EU Commission GDPR adequacy decision on the UK.
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Yesterday, I was sent the EU Commission final draft adequacy decisions on the UK. This post contains my first thoughts on the GDPR adequacy decision.
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The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) stipulates, in Article FINPROV.10A, that, from the coming into (provisional) effect of that
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Douwe Korff and I have now completed the second part of our analysis of the UK data protection legal framework,
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The data protection regime in the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, will almost certainly change at the end of the
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Once the Brexit withdrawal agreement “transition period” ends on 31 December 2020, the UK will become a “third country” under
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