The United Kingdom’s keenness to agree to its own data adequacy decisions with countries like the United States could become a contentious issue with the European Union, according to one of the bloc’s main data privacy regulators.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Wojciech Wiewiórowski, told Compliance Week while EU-U.K. transfers may be safe, the European Commission has concerns about how such data is then transferred to third countries not considered to have the same level of data protection—the United States being one.
