There’s been a lot of turbulence in the data privacy regulation space in the past couple of years. Post Brexit, there was a risk for the UK to be digitally isolated from the EU.
For the moment, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been kept in UK law as the UK GDPR, and the EU recognizes the UK under the GDPR and the LED (Law Enforcement Directive) as providing adequate data protection, which means that data can – for the most part – continue to flow.