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Comment: UK deal on EU data transfers unlikely to falter on lack of data-protection guarantee

By Vesela Gladicheva ( November 6, 2017, 11:41 GMT | Comment) -- The UK's wish to negotiate adequacy status with the EU — in order to keep personal data flowing freely after Brexit — is already facing a high hurdle due to government plans to toughen surveillance powers. Now a new problem has emerged that stems from an intention to omit in domestic law an EU provision guaranteeing the right to data protection. This is less likely to endanger the final deal, however.With the UK's aim to negotiate a bespoke deal with the EU to keep personal data flowing freely after Brexit already facing one stiff hurdle, the emergence of another would at first glance seem problematic....

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