BRUSSELS—EU data commissioners have said that the United Kingdom would be treated as a “third country” in the event of a “no-deal” Brexit next March and have confirmed that data transfers would be “restricted.”
“Until the European Commission rules that data protection in the U.K. is on a par with that in the EU, the U.K. will be considered as a third country and there will be restrictions on data flows,” said Elizabeth Denham, U.K. Information Commissioner, at the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in October.
