U.K.-based businesses should take extra precautions to lawfully transfer personal data across the European Economic Area if Parliament rejects the Brexit deal next month, the U.K.’s privacy office said.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) released guidance Dec. 13 advising companies to put standard contractual clauses in place, and assign a representative to an EU or EEA state, where individuals whose personal data they’re processing are located.
Under the U.K.’s proposed divorce agreement with the EU, U.K. companies would continue to trade personal data freely across the EEA, which includes the EU as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, until at ...
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