Companies Warned to Make Post-Brexit Data Transfer Plans

Companies should prepare for the possibility that, after Brexit, they may not be able to rely on European Union approval of the U.K.'s privacy regime to legally transfer data from the EU to the U.K., the European Commission said.

Companies doing business in the U.K. could be left without a legal basis for transferring data to their U.K. offices if they fail to put alternative data transfer methods in place.

Preparing for Brexit “is not just a matter for EU and national authorities but also for private parties,” the commission, the EU’s executive arm, said in a notice to stakeholders ...