BLM – MAX POWER – IS THE US-UK-EU SPECIAL DATA RELATIONSHIP OVER?

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Author - Steve Kuncewitz

It’s been two years since the coming into force of the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, and while there has been a huge amount of thought, debate and effort put into how businesses should react to the amplified effect of EU and UK data protection law, strengthened rights of individuals in the event that their personal data is misused and increased sanctions in the event of that misuse alongside a stream of both helpful and unhelpful Court decisions which appear to make seeking redress through proceedings progressively easier, the issue of how personal data can and should be shared with businesses and other entities based in the US has rumbled along fairly quietly and with less fanfare.