In a post for Hogan Lovells' Chronicle of Data Protection, Eduardo Ustaran, CIPP/E, explains how a potential U.K. exodus from the European Union wouldn’t spell the end for Britain's data protection laws. Ustaran believes EU data protection law will always be the benchmark for the U.K. “If Brexit happened, it would be inconceivable for the U.K. not to do the same and immediately knock on the door of the Commission to explain exactly how the GDPR will still make its way into our national law,” writes Ustaran. “Let us not forget that U.K. data protection law had already been in operation for more than 10 years by the time the original EU data protection directive was adopted in 1995,” Ustaran points out. “In other words, Brussels did not invent modern data protection law.”
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