Among other things, 2018 will go down in history as the year of panics over data protection. First, it was the EU General Data Protection Regulation and its impossible deadline for compliance. Now, it is Brexit and the uncertainty as to what it will mean. The famous phrase "Brexit means Brexit" is as cryptic today as it was two years ago. But now, with six months to go for the U.K.'s scheduled departure from the European Union, the uncertainty of not knowing what Brexit will look like seems paralyzing. For those with responsibility for data protection compliance in the U.K. and abroad the question is a simple one: What will be the impact of Brexit on my organization, and what do we need to do about it? As Hogan Lovells Partner Eduardo Ustaran, CIPP/E, writes for Privacy Perspectives, the answer largely depends on what kind of Brexit we will end up with, so he offers odds on the chances for each possible scenario.
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