UK to strike first post-Brexit data flow deal

Sam Jungyun Choi was quoted by Global Data Review discussing the adequacy of a recently signed agreement by the UK in principle with Korea--the country's first deal guaranteeing frictionless data flows with another country since leaving the EU.

"It's one of the first steps towards the UK finding its own path towards data transfers, and data protection law in general, although within the safe confines of what's recognized by the EU," she said. “It'll be interesting to see if a group of countries – for example, the UK, Korea, Canada, Australia – could get together and create their own framework for data transfers, that gets recognized internationally and that other countries can more easily accede to."

Sam added that the decision to reach an agreement with Korea was unsurprising due to its existing EU adequacy decision, and also noted that an important piece of the UK’s planned data reforms relates to data transfers.

“Adopting a bilateral approach to getting adequacy decisions for all the countries that need to receive data would be a lot of work – it wouldn't be the most efficient approach for a workable solution to the data transfer problem.”

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