Why the UK’s vote to leave the EU will have little effect on its data protection rules

Many of the rules that the 51.9 percent who voted to leave the EU hoped to escape are, in fact, firmly part of U.K. law. Many of those rules will only go away if the UK parliament votes to repeal them. The UK is likely to remain part of the EU until October 2018 — or longer, if Cameron’s successor is in no rush to invoke Article 50. U.S. and EU officials are still negotiating the details of the replacement, Privacy Shield, which will also cover the UK.”]

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