Brussels lawyers say that an eleventh-hour decision by the European Commission on Monday will allow personal data to continue to flow across the Channel for the time being, but that new legal troubles loom.
With the decision, the European Commission is essentially saying that the data protection regime of the U.K. – a former EU member country since the beginning of this year – meets the bloc’s data protection standards and that personal data transferred across the Channel are safe in the hands of U.K. businesses and public authorities.
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